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单词 prison
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prisonprison /ˈprɪzən/ noun 1 a building or room where criminals are kept (nouns) prison
a large building where criminals are sent to stay as punishment for a crime:
  • She was sent to prison for five years because of the robbery.
  • He spent 26 years in prison for killing a policeman.
  • jail
    a prison, or a place where people who have been charged with a crime are kept before they are judged in a court of law. Jail sounds more informal than prison:
  • He is being held in the LA County Jail until his trial.
  • Curtis has been in jail for nearly nine years.
  • penitentiary (formal)
    a prison, especially a large one:
  • The judge sent her to the state penitentiary for five years.
  • cell
    a small room where a prisoner is kept:
  • Some prisoners were locked up in their cells for 24 hours a day.
  • dungeon
    a dark prison that is under a building such as a castle. Dungeons were used in the past:
  • He was captured by the king and thrown in the dungeon.
  • custody
    if someone is in custody, that person is in prison before a trial, or while the police find facts about a crime:
  • Your son will be held in custody until the trial date.
  • When the plane landed, the men were taken into custody by the FBI.
  • 2 to make someone be kept in a prison (verbs) put someone in prison/jail also send someone to prison/jail
    to officially order someone to be taken to a prison or jail and kept there:
  • Police put the young man in jail overnight for drunk driving.
  • If Rogers is found guilty of murder, he could be sent to prison for life.
  • lock up (informal)
    to put and keep someone in prison. Use lock up especially when you think someone deserves to be in prison:
  • I think rapists should be locked up for the rest of their lives.
  • jail
    to put and keep someone in prison as a punishment, or to keep someone in prison before he or she goes to court to be judged for a crime. Jail is used especially in newspaper reports:
  • Most of the local drug dealers have now been jailed.
  • imprison (formal)
    to put and keep someone in prison. Use imprison especially when you think the punishment is wrong or unfair:
  • Government forces imprisoned and beat many of the protesters.
  • incarcerate (formal)
    incarcerate means the same as put in prison:
  • Williams has been incarcerated for the murder since 1996.
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