jail
n. 監獄; 看守所
v. 監禁; 拘留
A jail is a place where criminals are kept in order to punish them, or where people waiting to be tried are kept.
Three prisoners escaped from a jail.
3名囚犯越獄了。
If someone is jailed, they are put into jail.
He was jailed for twenty years.
他被判了20年監禁。
1. 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)
1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail;
confine, imprison, jail
這些動詞均含"監禁"之意。
jail, prison, cell
這些名詞均有"牢房,監獄"之意。
The prisoner was taken under escort to the jail.
罪犯被押送到監獄.
If you don't learn how to keep your nose clean, you're going to end up in jail.
如果你不學會守法, 你會進監獄的.
After breaking out of jail, he hid out in a deserted farmhouse.
他越獄後躲藏在一個無人居住的農舍裡.
The police put the culprit in jail.
警方把罪犯投入監獄.
The protesters were hauled off to jail.
抗議者被拉走投入監牢.