penitentiary
发音
英 [ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri]
美 [ˌpɛnɪˈtɛnʃəri]
-
- n.
- <美>监狱
-
- adj.
- 用作教养的，感化（院）的，教养所的
单词词源
penitentiary 监狱
来自penitent,悔罪的，忏悔的，-ary,表地方。原为宗教术语，指冒犯神或教会后忏悔的地方，后引申词义监狱。
双语例句
- 1. Public enemies begins in 1933 as john dillinger ( johnny depp ) leads a mass breakout from indiana state penitentiary .
- 《公敌》的故事发生于1933年，约翰狄林杰（强尼.迪普饰）带领一群人从印第安纳州的监狱中逃越出来。
- 2. Later , at ohio state penitentiary , doctors injected hela cells into prisoners without telling them what they were doing : some developed tumours as a result .
- 随后在俄亥俄州立监狱，医生们在不告知罪犯的情况下将海拉细胞注入他们的体内：结果是一些成熟的肿瘤。
- 3. But only a handful of the 1400 graduates of a pioneering training institute for penitentiary staff have jobs in a system still dominated by the security forces , according to human-rights groups .
- 但是根据人权组织的说法，从第一所专门训练监狱工作者的机构毕业的1400人只有很少一部分在该系统找到工作，监狱系统任由安全部队控制。
- 4. At the time , he was still working as a parole officer for the state and he was taking one of the prisoners , who must have been out on furlough , back to the penitentiary .
- 那时他还在工作，是州里的假释官，因此来时带着一个囚犯，那人准是在外面休假准备回监狱去的。