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
- Therefore, we need to do an educated modern people, obviously, the penitentiary was not born, is an acquired culture.
所以我们要做一个有教养的现代人，显然，教养不是天生的，是后天培养的。 - 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。 - He worked as a warden at the state penitentiary.
他在这所州监狱任看守长。 - There are three tribunals in Vatican which are the Supreme tribunal, the appeal tribunal and the apostolic penitentiary.
梵蒂冈有三个法庭：即最高法庭、上诉法庭和教廷赦罪院。 - 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 - The closest level one facility would be Fox River State penitentiary.
离那最近的一级监狱是狐狸河州立监狱。 - You know, if he committed any offence, it was being loyal and true to his brother whom he loved. I know where you will send him and it will not be to a penitentiary.
你们知道，如果说他有什么罪，那就是他对兄长的忠诚和热爱，我相信你们是不会把他送进教养院的。 - 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。 - The best stories of this sort usually involve the innocent foreigner being shackled or bundled off to the state penitentiary.
大多数这类故事通常会涉及无辜的外国人被带上手铐或被匆匆送到国家监狱。 - Only the place where they were working is the opposite of summer camp: Alcatraz, the notoriously bleak military prison turned maximum-security penitentiary turned national park.
只不过这里跟夏令营正好相反&这里是阿尔卡特拉斯，它起初是一座凄凉暗淡、臭名昭著的军方监狱，后来成了最高安全级别的监狱，最后又变成了国家公园。