jail
jail 英 [dʒeɪl] 美 [dʒel]
n. 监狱； vt. 监禁；
进行时:jailing 过去式:jailed 过去分词:jailed 第三人称单数:jails 名词复数:jails
- A jail is a place where people are confined while they're being punished for a crime. If you end up getting a mug shot and put behind bars, chances are you are In jail.
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- n. 监狱；
- vt. 监禁；
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1. She spent a year in jail.
她坐了一年牢。
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2. He has been released from jail.
他已从监狱里放出来了。
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3. a ten-year jail sentence
十年监禁的判刑
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4. He was jailed for life for murder.
他因谋杀罪被终身监禁。
- jail (n.) c. 1300 (c. 1200 in surnames) "a jail, prison; a birdcage." The form in j- is from Middle English jaile, from Old French jaiole "a cage; a prison," from Medieval Latin gabiola "a cage," from Late Latin caveola, diminutive of Latin cavea "a cage, enclosure, stall, coop; a hollow place, a cavity" (see cave (n.)).
- jail (v.) "to put in jail, to confine as if in jail," c. 1600, from jail (n.). Related: Jailed; jailing.
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