jails是什么意思？

jails

• n. 监狱( jail的名词复数 )；
• v. 监禁，拘留( jail的第三人称单数 )；

例句

• Six of Brazil's 27 states have semi - privatized jails. 巴西27个州中有6个拥有半私立监狱.
• The pick of all the best jails in Georgia. 是从乔治亚州最好的监狱里挑选出来的.
• 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.
• Jails and temporary detention camps are overflowing. 监狱和临时拘留所里人满为患。
• Jails and temporary detention camps are overflowing... 监狱和临时拘留所里人满为患。
• ...jails and other parts of the correction system. 监狱和其他惩治改造机构

英语六级真题

Others highlight the strain that undocumented immigrants place on public services, like schools, hospitals, and jails.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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