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

• United Nations Symposium on the exploitation of the blacks in South Africa and Namibia and on prison conditions in the South African jails;
  联合国关于南非和纳米比亚境内剥削黑人以及南非监狱囚犯状况专题讨论会；
• Jails which punishment and the reformation the criminal, the author elaborates insure the safety of jails on foundation condition, key link, basic guarantee and important means.
  对于用来惩罚与改造罪犯的监狱，作者阐述了要确保监狱安全的基础条件，关键环节，根本保障及重要手段。
• I ain't too crazy about jails, chief.
  我对监牢没什么喜好，警长。
• This player is not in jails.
  此玩家不在监狱里面。
• Some parts of California's criminal justice system ( county jails, for example) have already banned smoking.
  加州刑事司法系统的一些部门（例如县监狱）此前已实施了禁烟。
• 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。
• She was so ignorant of the world of police and jails and criminals.
  警察、监狱、囚徒，这一切对她太陌生啦。
• Days later they were themselves murdered in murky circumstances in what purported to be one of the country's most secure jails.
  然而数天之后，他们自己却在阴暗的环境、说是该国最安全的监牢之一被灭口。
• At one point, he likened our walled cities to "jails," while I insisted that the Eastern Suburbs were one of the many places in China that had no walls.
  有一次，他把我们的围墙城市“监狱，说：”虽然我坚持认为，东郊之一，在我国许多地方已经没有围墙。
• 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。