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This flashcard defines "prison" as a building where criminals are held as punishment or while awaiting trial, and can also refer to the system of keeping people in prison or a difficult situation to escape from. It includes phonetic transcriptions, examples, synonyms like "jail," and related terms like "prisoner" and "imprison."

This flashcard defines "prison" as a building where criminals are held as punishment or while awaiting trial, and can also refer to the system of keeping people in prison or a difficult situation to escape from. It includes phonetic transcriptions, examples, synonyms like "jail," and related terms like "prisoner" and "imprison."

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[N-VAR 可变名词]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.
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  • 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


Oxford prison / ˈprɪzn ; NAmE ˈprɪzn / noun 1 [countable ,  uncountable ] a building where people are kept as a punishment for a crime they have committed, or while they are waiting for trial 监狱;牢狱;看守所 SYN
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He was sent to prisonfor five years. 他被关押了五年。 She is in prison,awaiting trial. 她正在拘押候审中。 to be released from prison 被释放出狱 a maximum-security prison 最高度戒备的监狱 the prison population (= the total number of prisoners in a country) 在押人数 the problem of overcrowding in prisons 监狱人满为患的问题 Ten prison officers and three inmates needed hospital treatment following the riot. 骚乱之后,有十名狱警和三名囚犯需入院治疗。 collocationsat
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2 [uncountable ] the system of keeping people in prisons 监禁;关押;关押制度 the prison service/system 监狱管理机构╱制度 The government insists that ‘prison works’ and plans to introduce a tougher sentencing policy for people convicted of violent crime. 政府坚持认为“关押有效”,并计划对暴力犯罪者实行更严厉的判刑政策。 3 [countable ] a place or situation from which sb cannot escape 难以脱身的地方(或处境);牢笼;樊笼 His hospital room had become a prison. 他的病房变成了牢笼。 prison prisons prisoned prisoning
prison / ˈprɪzn ; NAmE ˈprɪzn /
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prisonpris‧on /ˈprɪzən/ ●●● S2 W2 noun
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1[countable, uncountable] a building where people are kept as a punishment for a crime, or while they are waiting to go to court for their trial SYN  jailprisoner, imprison:  He visits his dad in prison every week. Ricky has been out of prison for three years now. They’ll probably put him in prison for a long time. Helen was sent to prison for attacking a man with a knife. The two men were arrested only a week after they were released from prison. Three terrorists escaped from Brixton Prison. an increase in the number of women going to prison Mr Gunn received a ten-year prison sentence.2[uncountable] the system that deals with keeping people in a prison:  the prison service Does prison deter criminals from offending again?3[countable] an unpleasant place or situation which it is difficult to escape from:  The farm felt like a prison to her.GRAMMARYou use prison without ‘the’ when talking in general about someone being kept somewhere as a punishment: · He is in prison for murder.· The judge sent him to prison.You use the prison when talking about a particular place: · There are about 600 prisoners in the prison.· Visitors to the prison are carefully checked.Grammar guide ‒ NOUNSCOLLOCATIONSverbsgo to prison· She went to prison for theft.put somebody in prison· Mentally ill people should not be put in prison.send somebody to prison· I was afraid I might get sent to prison.be released from prison· He was released from prison six weeks ago.let somebody out of prison· When’s he going to be let out of prison?come/get out of prison· The boy just come out of prison after doing two years for assault.escape from (a) prison· Blake escaped from a Missouri prison last year.adjectivesan open prison (=one where prisoners are not restricted as much as usual)· He was transferred to an open prison.a maximum security prison· He was sent to a maximum security prison where prisoners are kept in their cells almost 23 hours a day.prison + NOUNa prison sentence/term (=a period of time in prison as a punishment)· He is serving a four-year prison sentence.a prison officer/official/warder/guard· Last month, a prisoner attacked two prison officers with a knife.a prison cell (=a room where a prisoner lives)· Overcrowding means that many prisoners have to share a prison cell.the prison population (=all the prisoners in a country)· The government wants to reduce the size of the prison population.THESAURUSprison a large building where people are kept as a punishment for a crime or while they are waiting to go to court for their trial: · He was sentenced to five years in prison.· Wandsworth Prisonjail a prison, or a similar smaller building where prisoners are kept for a short time: · This old building is the jail that Butch Cassidy escaped from in 1887.· He was taken to a cell in the Los Angeles County Jail.· 58% of prisoners are in jail for non-violent crimes.· The strikers were harassed, beaten and put in jail for trespassing.· Grover got caught for not paying his taxes and was sent to jail.gaol /dʒeɪl/ British English another way of spelling jail: · He spent the night in gaol.penitentiary /ˌpenəˈtenʃəri/ American English a large prison for people who are guilty of serious crimes: · the Ohio State Penitentiary· The murderer served 10 years at the penitentiary in Stillwater.· the abandoned federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Islandcorrectional facility American English formal an official word for a prison: · 1,000 prisoners rioted at the North County Correctional Facility.detention centre British English, detention center American English a place where young people who have done something illegal are kept, because they are too young to go to prison. Also used about a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept: · Kevin, who had been abandoned by his mother, had been in and out of detention centres all his life.· a juvenile detention center· Harmondsworth detention centre, near Heathrow airportopen prison British English a prison in which prisoners have more freedom than in an ordinary prison, usually because their crimes were less serious: · In some open prisons, prisoners are allowed to go home at weekends.cell a small room in a prison or police station, where someone is kept as a punishment: · a prison cell· Conditions were poor, and there were several prisoners to one cell.
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prisons[2772]
监狱(80%),监禁(17%),囚禁(2%),关入监狱(1%)
n.监狱;监禁;拘留所
vt.监禁,关押
n.(Prison)人名;(德)普里松

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