penitentiary
英 [ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri] 美 [ˌpɛnɪˈtɛnʃəri]

n.

监狱；

adj.

用作教养的，感化（院）的，教养所的；

变形

复数：penitentiaries

英英释义

penitentiary[ ,peni'tenʃəri ]

• n.a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes

  同义词：pen

• adj.used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers

  "penitentiary institutions"

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. He worked as a warden at the state penitentiary.
   他在这所州监狱任看守长。
2. She was placed in the Dublin penitentiary for dealing in drugs by telephone.
   她因通过电话做毒品交易而被囚于都柏林监狱。

权威例句

Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society by James B. Jacobs
Penitentiary or penthouse condo: the tuberculous granuloma from the microbe's point of view.
The prison and the factory : origins of the penitentiary system
Penitentiary or penthouse condo? The tuberculous granuloma from the microbe’s point of view. Cell Microbiol
A just measure of pain : the penitentiary in the industrial revolution, 1750-1850
PROCEDURES USED AT STATEVILLE PENITENTIARY FOR THE TESTING OF POTENTIAL ANTIMALARIAL AGENTS.
The Development of the Argentine Penitentiary Policy -- Part 1: Introduction to the Policy.
Imagining the penitentiary: Fiction and the architecture of mind in eighteenth-century England : John Bender , (Chicago and London: ...
Addressing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in penitentiary hospitals and in the general population of the former Soviet Union
Mixed infection and clonal representativeness of a single sputum sample in tuberculosis patients from a penitentiary hospital in Geo...