penitentiary
英 [ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri]
美 [ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri]
n. 监狱
BNC.37321 / COCA.17346
牛津词典
noun
- 监狱
a prison
柯林斯词典
- 监狱
Apenitentiaryis a prison.
英英释义
noun
- a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
adj
- showing or constituting penance
- penitential tears
- wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words
- used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers
- penitentiary institutions
双语例句
- Xie Jin must have been particularly moved: he hired Zhao to star in a movie, Nu Er Gu ( Penitentiary Angel).
相信谢晋尢其感动：他在一部电影《女儿谷》（落难俏佳人）中起用了赵薇。 - It was spring before I managed to escape from the penitentiary, and then only by a stroke of fortune.
待我设法逃离这座感化院已是春天了，那还是因为命运的巧妙安排。 - She was placed in the Dublin penitentiary for dealing in drugs by telephone.
她因通过德律风做毒品交易而被囚于都柏林监狱。 - Fastow be imprisoned in a federal penitentiary in Bastrop, Texas, where he can be treated for his dependency on anti-anxiety medication.
休斯敦请求把法斯托关押在德克萨斯州巴斯多普的联邦监狱，在那里可以治疗他对抗焦虑药物的依赖性。 - An Investigation of AIDS knowledge and Attitude among the Penitentiary Women
某收容教育所服教妇女艾滋病知识和态度调查分析 - And I'll have you shipped to alder penitentiary.
我会把你运送到阿尔德监狱。 - Hard to believe, I know, but my usually reliable White House insiders tell me that President Bush is trying to decide whether or not to pardon Amy Fisher, now jailed in an upstate penitentiary.
我知道，这很难令人相信，不过我在白宫里的内线（他的消息通常很可靠）告诉我：布什总统正在考虑是否应该赦免正在上州坐监的埃米・费歇尔。 - Next day Paul was sentenced to three years in the State Penitentiary and taken off.
第二天，保罗被判三年徒刑，随即解往州监狱。 - He worked as a warden at the state penitentiary.
他在这所州监狱任看守长。 - He knowed him in the moundsville penitentiary.
他是在蒙斯维尔监狱认识他的。