prisons

英 [ˈprɪznz]

美 [ˈprɪzənz]

n.  监狱; 牢狱; 看守所; 监禁; 关押; 关押制度; 难以脱身的地方(或处境); 牢笼; 樊笼
prison的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 监狱；监牢；看守所
  Aprisonis a building where criminals are kept as punishment or where people accused of a crime are kept before their trial.
  1. The prison's inmates are being kept in their cells...
     这个监狱的犯人被关在他们的囚室里。
  2. He was sentenced to life in prison...
     他被判处终身监禁。
  3. They released Mr Mandela from prison in 1990.
     1990年，他们将曼德拉先生从狱中释放。
  4. ...the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison.
     圣昆廷监狱的毒气室

双语例句

• The money spent on prisons could be better spent on training first-time law-breakers to earn an honest living.
  与其把钱花在监狱上，还不如用来培训初次犯罪者学习正当谋生的技能。
• Animal rights advocates argue that zoos are really animal prisons and very often cruel.
  动物权利保护者指出动物园实际上是动物的牢笼，经常很残酷地对待动物。
• There is severe overcrowding in our prisons.
  我们的监狱里过度拥挤的现象极其严重。
• There's a lot of talk about what's wrong with prisons in America.
  许多人在讨论美国监狱到底出了什么问题。
• The country's prisons are filled with drug-takers, and cannot cope with the numbers
  这个国家的监狱里挤满了瘾君子，都容纳不下了。
• Mind control experiments have been part of California for decades and permeate mental institutions and prisons.
  精神控制实验成为加州的一部分已经十年了，并且渗入到了精神病院和监狱中。
• The United States has defended its policy of detaining juveniles in prisons in Iraq, and Afghanistan.
  美国为在伊拉克和阿富汗境内关押青少年的政策辩护。
• A dozen committees have met and published recommendations to decongest prisons, curb arbitrary arrests and speed up trials.
  据了解，一批大大小小的国家委员会进行了会晤并向外发布了一系列的建议，旨在减轻监狱的负担、控制任意的逮捕以及加速审判的过程。
• The prisons were without showers or recreational facilities.
  监狱里不为犯人提供淋浴或娱乐设施。
• The SSI had not only withdrawn its own men, emptied its prisons and destroyed archives;
  国家安全调查局的所有人员不仅撤退了，并且还清空了其监狱，毁灭了所有的档案；