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

• Only the place where they were working is the opposite of summer camp: Alcatraz, the notoriously bleak military prison turned maximum-security penitentiary turned national park.
  只不过这里跟夏令营正好相反&这里是阿尔卡特拉斯，它起初是一座凄凉暗淡、臭名昭著的军方监狱，后来成了最高安全级别的监狱，最后又变成了国家公园。
• He worked as a warden at the state penitentiary.
  他在这所州监狱任看守长。
• 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。
• And you'll be spending every day in the federal penitentiary.
  每一天都在联邦监狱度过。
• 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。
• 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。
• There are three tribunals in Vatican which are the Supreme tribunal, the appeal tribunal and the apostolic penitentiary.
  梵蒂冈有三个法庭：即最高法庭、上诉法庭和教廷赦罪院。
• And I'll have you shipped to alder penitentiary.
  我会把你运送到阿尔德监狱。
• He knowed him in the moundsville penitentiary.
  他是在蒙斯维尔监狱认识他的。
• Tom Joad was released from the Oklahoma state penitentiary where he had served a sentence for killing a man in self-defense.
  汤姆·乔德从俄克拉何马州立监狱中释放出来，他是由于自卫杀人在那座监狱里服刑的。他在监狱里服过两年徒刑。