penitentiaries

penitentiaries[ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri:z] 

原级:penitentiary

penitentiaries 基本解释
<美>监狱( penitentiary的名词复数 );
penitentiaries 双语例句

1. Our penitentiaries are full of men who took the short cuts.
    我们的感化院内充满这些走捷径的人。

2. Self: You've broken out of two penitentiaries.
    你们可是从两大监狱逃脱的人物。

3. The new camps, with sentences typically under two years, have been grafted on to a system of longer-term penitentiaries.
    新劳动营用来关押刑期通常在两年以下的人,现已被转移到长期关押的监狱系统。

4. Rescue work includes the conduct of penitentiaries, orphanages, and homes for the aged poor.
    救援工作包括进行监狱,孤儿院,和老人院穷人。

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5. The guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up must spend their daily lives facing death.
    工作于看守所的狱卒们每天和那些死刑犯一样过着面临死亡的生活。

6. Their demands for the release of group members incarcerated in federal penitentiaries were never met, and the incident was speedily resolved by the successful deployment of a commando unit.
    他们提出的释放囚禁在联邦监狱的组织成员的要求没有被应允,而且政府派出的突击队成功快速地解决了事件。

7. Making use of written or common law, the serf-owners set up penitentiaries or private jails.
    农奴主运用成文法或习惯法,设立监狱或私牢。

penitentiaries的近义词

8. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been corrected.
    这沟管出口处象一个漏斗的内部,很可恶地变窄,象拘留所的小门,在狱中是合理的,但在沟中却不合理,后来被改正了。

penitentiaries 单语例句

1. There were penitentiaries or private jails in monasteries and aristocrats'residences, where instruments of torture were kept and clandestine tribunals held to punish serfs and slaves.