prison

英['prizn]美['prizn]

n.
1.[C]监狱，看守所；【贬】某人无法逃脱的地方，牢笼
2.[U]被监禁，（尤指）服刑，坐牢

同：	[n.] prison house

jail，prison，cell

这些名词均有“牢房，监狱”之意。
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。
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。

His refusal to pay his debts landed him in prison.
他因拒绝还债而入狱。收藏
During the prison term, Paunch could be released on parole only under supervision.
刑期内可以假释，但在假释期内，庞奇必须置于他人监督之下。收藏
"Prison law of the PRC was promulgated on December 29, 1994 and effective as of the same date."
《中华人民共租国监狱法》于1994年12月29日颁布并于颁发之日起生效。收藏
Later in the year Nichols was convicted of the less severe charges of manslaughter and conspiracy, and he was sentenced to life in prison in June 1998.
同年晚些时候，尼柯尔斯被判犯有稍轻的过失杀人罪以及同谋罪，于1998年被判终身监禁。收藏
These pampered public school boys.had managed to evade the long prison sentences that lesser fry were serving(Noel Annan)
这些被宠坏了的公立学校的男孩子们…已经触犯了很少用于青年人的长期徒刑(诺埃尔·安南)收藏

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a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
[同] prison, prison house
a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
[同] prison, prison house

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