penitentiary

英 [ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri]

美 [ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri]

n.  监狱

BNC.37321 / COCA.17346

牛津词典

noun

• 监狱
  a prison

柯林斯词典

• 监狱
  Apenitentiaryis a prison.

英英释义

noun

• a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
  Synonym:pen

adj

• showing or constituting penance
  1. penitential tears
  2. wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words
  Synonym:penitential
• used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers
  1. penitentiary institutions

双语例句

• The best stories of this sort usually involve the innocent foreigner being shackled or bundled off to the state penitentiary.
  大多数这类故事通常会涉及无辜的外国人被带上手铐或被匆匆送到国家监狱。
• Therefore, we need to do an educated modern people, obviously, the penitentiary was not born, is an acquired culture.
  所以我们要做一个有教养的现代人，显然，教养不是天生的，是后天培养的。
• He knowed him in the moundsville penitentiary.
  他是在蒙斯维尔监狱认识他的。
• International Centre for Sociological, Penal and Penitentiary Research and Studies at Messina
  墨西拿国际社会学、惩罚和教养研究中心
• Hard to believe, I know, but my usually reliable White House insiders tell me that President Bush is trying to decide whether or not to pardon Amy Fisher, now jailed in an upstate penitentiary.
  我知道，这很难令人相信，不过我在白宫里的内线（他的消息通常很可靠）告诉我：布什总统正在考虑是否应该赦免正在上州坐监的埃米・费歇尔。
• Do you know anyone at the Kansas State penitentiary?
  你认识肯萨斯州监狱里的人吗？
• Tell her I didn't die like a damn convict locked up in some penitentiary.
  告诉她我可没死得像劳改局里头窝囊的囚犯似的。
• An Investigation of AIDS knowledge and Attitude among the Penitentiary Women
  某收容教育所服教妇女艾滋病知识和态度调查分析
• European Meeting of Heads of Prison Administrations He worked as a warden at the state penitentiary.
  欧洲监狱机构首长会议他在这所州监狱任看守长。
• It was spring before I managed to escape from the penitentiary, and then only by a stroke of fortune.
  待我设法逃离这座感化院已是春天了，那还是因为命运的巧妙安排。