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Warden Prison Official Wɔːrdn N.看守人;监护人 Fire Told Light

Front warden
Pron ['wɔːrdn]
Back 【warden】
n.看守人;监护人
The fire warden told us not to light matches near the gas station.
消防队长告诉我们不要在靠近加油站的地方点火柴。
Vocab
wardenthe chief official in charge of a prison

The person who works at a jail as the boss of all the prison guards is called the warden.

A warden's job is to manage a prison — so while she may be uniformed and armed like a guard, her actual tasks may look more like a desk job. The noun warden has traditionally been used to talk about someone in an official supervisory position, especially in British English, but the prison guard definition goes back to the early thirteenth century, when it meant "one who guards." The root is the Old English word weard, "a watchman or sentry."

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