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
  Synonym:pen

adj

• showing or constituting penance
  1. penitential tears
  2. wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words
  Synonym:penitential
• used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers
  1. penitentiary institutions

双语例句

• He knowed him in the moundsville penitentiary.
  他是在蒙斯维尔监狱认识他的。
• 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。
• And I'll have you shipped to alder penitentiary.
  我会把你运送到阿尔德监狱。
• 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。
• Tell her I didn't die like a damn convict locked up in some penitentiary.
  告诉她我可没死得像劳改局里头窝囊的囚犯似的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks.
  监狱已经塞满了人，大多都是黑人。