英汉词典

prison 基本解释

n.

监狱；牢笼；监禁；入狱

变形

复数：prisons

双语释义

n.(名词)[C]监狱,看守所 place where people are kept locked up as a punishment for crimes they have committed or while awaiting trial[C]牢笼,禁锢之地 place from which sb or animals cannot escape[U]监禁,入狱,坐牢 being kept in a prison; imprisonment

英英释义

prison[ 'prizən ]

n.a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment

同义词：prison house

a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement

同义词：prison house

prison 相关例句

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)动词+～

• break prison越狱
• throw sb in〔into〕 prison把某人投入监狱

形容词+～

• damp prison潮湿的监狱
• overcrowded prison过于拥挤的监狱

介词+～

• at prison在监狱
• in prison在狱中
• out of prison越狱

～+介词

• prison for confinement拘留所

词组短语

in prison坐牢

escape from prison越狱

prison sentence n. 徒刑

prison camp战俘集中营

go to prison入狱；被监禁

prison guard监狱看守

state prison[法]州监狱

prison term刑期

be put in prison被送去坐牢

更多收起词组短语

同近义词辨析

prison, cell, jail

这组词都有“牢房，监狱”的意思，其区别是：

prison指触犯刑律的人被关押的地方，通常指判决后的罪犯居留地。

cell指单人牢房或几个人合住的小牢房。

jail(英国英语拼写为gaol)指收犯轻罪的人或未经判决的人的处所。

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. The police crushed out the rebellion in the prison.
   警察把发生在监狱中的暴乱镇压了下去。
2. That felon tried to escape from the prison.
   那名重罪犯试图从监狱中逃跑。
3. His deliverance from the prison puzzled us.
   他被从监狱释放使我们困惑不已。
4. Strikes by prison officers underline the need for reform in our gaols.
   监狱工作人员罢工一事，突出地表明我们的监狱制度需要改革。
5. The thief was put into prison for one year.
   小偷被监禁一年。
6. Many people believe that prison isn't a cure for crime.
   许多人都相信监禁解决不了犯罪问题。

用作及物动词(vt.)

1. She continues to languish in a foreign prison.
   她被继续囚禁在一所外国的监狱里。
2. He has been kept in prison for weeks without food and dies like a dog.
   他被囚禁了几星期，没有食物果腹，最後悲惨地死去。

权威例句

Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Discipline and punish : the birth of the prison
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Selection From the Prison Notebooks
Selections from Prison Notebooks
Selections from the prison notebooks of Antonio Gramsci.
The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports
Male drugs‐related deaths in the fortnight after release from prison: Scotland, 1996–99
From Prison Cell to Campus ; UNIVERSITIES ++ the First Ex-Prisoners to Be Given Scholarships by the Longford Trust Graduated This Su...
The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison. Gresham M. Sykes.