(noun.) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence).
录入:撒迦利亚
双语例句
In the jail also was a half-breed horse-thief. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Presently afterwards, Young John disappeared into the jail. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
A certain set of words and phrases, as much belonging to tourists as the College and the Snuggery belonged to the jail, was always in their mouths. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
Harmon's Jail; Harmony Jail. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
You might put ME into a Jail, with genteel society and a rubber, and I should never care to come out. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
Almost as dull as the infernal old jail. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
Sugden took the reins--he drives like Jehu--and in another quarter of an hour Barraclough will be safe in Stilbro' jail. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
The evils of prostitution are seen as a series of episodes, each of which must be clubbed, forbidden, raided and jailed. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
May be said to live in jails, this boy. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
Some of our best-intentioned political schemes, like reform colonies and scientific jails, turn out to be inhuman tyrannies just because our imagination does not penetrate the sociological label. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.