penitentiary

英 [ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri]

美 [ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri]

n. 监狱

BNC.37321 / COCA.17346

牛津词典

noun

noun

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

He knowed him in the moundsville penitentiary.
他是在蒙斯维尔监狱认识他的。
Xie Jin must have been particularly moved: he hired Zhao to star in a movie, Nu Er Gu ( Penitentiary Angel).
相信谢晋尢其感动：他在一部电影《女儿谷》（落难俏佳人）中起用了赵薇。
It was spring before I managed to escape from the penitentiary, and then only by a stroke of fortune.
待我设法逃离这座感化院已是春天了，那还是因为命运的巧妙安排。
International Centre for Sociological, Penal and Penitentiary Research and Studies at Messina
墨西拿国际社会学、惩罚和教养研究中心
Do you know anyone at the Kansas State penitentiary?
你认识肯萨斯州监狱里的人吗？
And you'll be spending every day in the federal penitentiary.
每一天都在联邦监狱度过。
The penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks.
监狱已经塞满了人，大多都是黑人。
She was placed in the Dublin penitentiary for dealing in drugs by telephone.
她因通过德律风做毒品交易而被囚于都柏林监狱。
Generally speaking, felonies are the more serious crimes and are usually punishable by imprisonment in a penitentiary.
一般来说，重罪是严重的犯罪行为，受到的惩罚是进监狱。
Next day Paul was sentenced to three years in the State Penitentiary and taken off.
第二天，保罗被判三年徒刑，随即解往州监狱。