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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks.
监狱已经塞满了人，大多都是黑人。 - 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。 - 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。 - International Centre for Sociological, Penal and Penitentiary Research and Studies at Messina
墨西拿国际社会学、惩罚和教养研究中心 - These are located inside the guard tower that sits in front of the Penitentiary.
这些在位于监狱前面的守卫塔里。