prison
['prɪz.ən] noun
ESSENTIAL countable or uncountable
■a building where criminals are forced to live as a punishment 监狱•Conditions in the prison are said to be appalling.听说监狱里的条件糟透了。 •He's spent a lot of time in prison.他坐了很长时间的牢。 •She went to/was sent to prison for six months.她入狱六个月。 •It was a maximum-security prison (= intended to be especially difficult to escape from).这是一所戒备森严的监狱。 •They should put him in prison and throw away the key!他们应该把他关进监狱，永远也别放出来！ •a prison cell/sentence/warder牢房／徒刑／狱吏 ADVANCED uncountable
■the system of keeping people in prisons 监禁，关押；关押制度•the prison service服刑 •Do you think prison works?你认为监禁有用吗？ •Prison (= the time he had spent in prison) hadn't changed him at all.服刑对他丝毫没有改变。 countable
■a situation or relationship from which it is difficult to escape 牢笼；禁锢•She felt that her marriage had become a prison.她觉得自己的婚姻变成了牢笼。 |