jails

英 [dʒeɪlz]

美 [dʒeɪlz]

n.  监狱
v.  监禁
jail的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用gaol


• N-VAR 监狱；看守所
  Ajailis a place where criminals are kept in order to punish them, or where people waiting to be tried are kept.
  1. Three prisoners escaped from a jail.
     3名囚犯越狱了。
• VERB 使入狱；监禁
  If someoneis jailed, they are put into jail.
  1. He was jailed for twenty years.
     他被判了20年监禁。

双语例句

• The state of the country's jails was a cause for concern.
  过个国家监狱的状况令人担心。
• I was not a stranger to visiting arrangements in jails.
  我对监狱里的探监手续并不陌生。
• But Britain's jails always fill up, no matter how many there are.
  但是，不管有多少监狱，总是会被填满。
• Accounts of cruel tortures in the jails of the reactionary government would curl one's hair.
  关于反动政府监狱里酷刑情况的介绍听了会叫人毛骨悚然。
• But Mr Arpaio's staff will continue to run immigration checks inside his jails.
  但阿尔帕约的探员们决心继续管理所辖监狱的移民[资格]审查。
• This player is not in jails.
  此玩家不在监狱里面。
• Massachusetts isn't as bad as some states, which have used tobacco money to build jails and museums, or even to improve a public golf course.
  马萨诸塞州还不象有些州搞的那么差，那些州已经开始用烟草款建监狱和博物馆了，甚至用来改善公用的高尔夫球场。
• The city has turned prisons and jails into a catchment for mentally ill people who get into trouble.
  该市已经把监狱和拘留所变成了对遇到麻烦的精神病人的关押处。
• In the interview he was asked, When Osho was in the jails of America, were you disturbed?
  在采访中他被问到：当奥修被关在美国的监狱里时，你受到打搅了吗？
• Jails and prisons often find themselves unprepared to deal with the mentally ill.
  拘留所和监狱常常感到他们自己还没有能力处理精神病犯人。