correctional 英 [kəˈrekʃənl]   美 [kəˈrekʃənl]

correctional

correctional  英 [kəˈrekʃənl] 美 [kəˈrekʃənl]

adj. 矫正的;修正的 

Once a place where crimes were punished, prison is now a "correctional institute": a wastebasket for peculiar humans and their bizarre stories. 监狱曾经是惩罚犯罪的地方,现在成了一个“矫正场所”:一个用来放置那些奇怪的人和他们奇怪的故事的废纸篓。
The number of people under state correctional control—meaning jail, prison, probation or parole—has also grown. 在州政府的纠正系统下的人数——在监狱里、拘留所里,缓刑或者假释——都在增长。

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  • adj. 矫正的;修正的
  • 1. Once a place where crimes were punished, prison is now a "correctional institute": a wastebasket for peculiar humans and their bizarre stories.

    监狱曾经是惩罚犯罪的地方,现在成了一个“矫正场所”:一个用来放置那些奇怪的人和他们奇怪的故事的废纸篓。

  • 2. The number of people under state correctional control—meaning jail, prison, probation or parole—has also grown.

    在州政府的纠正系统下的人数——在监狱里、拘留所里,缓刑或者假释——都在增长。

  • 3. He says it happened while filming on location at the Joliet correctional Center outside of Chicago.

    他说当时是在芝加哥的朱利叶市惩治中心进行《越狱》的拍摄。

  • correctional (adj.) "tending to or intended for correction," 1790; see correction + -al (1) or else from Medieval Latin correctionalis, from past-participle stem of Latin corrigere. 
cor·rec·tion·al / kəˈrekʃənl ; NAmE kəˈrekʃənl / adjective [only before noun ] ( especially NAmE) concerned with improving the behaviour of criminals, usually by punishing them 改造的 a correctional center/institution/facility (= a prison) 监狱 cor·rec·tion·al / kəˈrekʃənl ; NAmE kəˈrekʃənl /
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