Jail
[dʒeɪl] or [dʒel]
解釋/意思:
(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).
錄入:撒迦利亚--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
(v. t.) To imprison.
英格拉姆編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [Written also, but not commonly, Gaol.] Prison, penitentiary, bridewell, workhouse, TOLLBOOTH, JUG, house of correction.
手打:托马斯
解釋/意思:
n. a prison.—ns. Jail′-bird Gaol′-bird a humorous name for one who is or has been confined in jail; Jail′er Gaol′er one who has charge of a jail or of prisoners called also a turnkey; Jail′-fē′ver Gaol′-fē′ver typhus fever so called because once common in jails.—Break jail to force one's way out of prison; Commission of Jail Delivery one of the commissions issued to judges of assize and judges of the Central Criminal Court in England.
科南錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To see others in jail, you will be urged to grant privileges to persons whom you believe to be unworthy To see negroes in jail, denotes worries and loss through negligence of underlings. For a young woman to dream that her lover is in jail, she will be disappointed in his character, as he will prove a deceiver. See Gaol.
整理:梅
例句/造句/用法:
- In the jail also was a half-breed horse-thief. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Presently afterwards, Young John disappeared into the jail. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Harmon's Jail; Harmony Jail. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- You might put ME into a Jail, with genteel society and a rubber, and I should never care to come out. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Almost as dull as the infernal old jail. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- 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. 雪麗.
- The evils of prostitution are seen as a series of episodes, each of which must be clubbed, forbidden, raided and jailed. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- May be said to live in jails, this boy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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