英语词汇prison怎么读，是什么意思，单词翻译、读音、固定搭配用法和短语词组及例句-英汉双解词典

prison

prɪzən  ˈprɪzən  ˈprɪzən 

Word forms: plural prisons

N-VAR [oft in names] 监狱；监牢；看守所 A prison is a building where criminals are kept as punishment or where people accused of a crime are kept before their trial. 监狱；监牢；看守所

The prison's inmates are being kept in their cells.

这个监狱的犯人被关在他们的囚室里。
He was sentenced to life in prison.

他被判处终身监禁。
They released Mr Mandela from prison in 1990.

1990年，他们将曼德拉先生从狱中释放。
...the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison.

圣昆廷监狱的毒气室

SYN jail, confinement, can [slang] , pound

Quotations

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self Mumia Abu-Jamal Live From Death Row

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage Richard Lovelace To Althea, from Prison

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Word Partnership

Word Partnership	Use prison with:
VERB.	die in prison, escape from prison, face prison, go to prison, release someone from prison, send someone to prison, serve/spend time in prison
N.	life in prison, prison officials, prison population, prison reform, prison sentence, prison time

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