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词组 prison
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prison /ˈprɪzən/ noun a building where people are kept as a punishment for a crime, or while they are waiting for their trialverbsgo to prison She went to prison for murder.put sb in prison I do not think mentally ill people should be put in prison.send sb to prison I was afraid I might get sent to prison.throw sb in/into prison (=put someone in prison, often unfairly) The men were arrested and thrown into prison.release sb from prison/let sb out of prison He was released from prison six weeks ago. | When is he going to be let out of prison?leave/come out of/get out of prison He managed to find a job a month after he got out of prison.escape from prison Blake escaped from a Missouri prison last year.be transferred to a prison He was transferred to a prison nearer his home in Liverpool.prison + nounsa prison sentence/term (=a period of time in prison as a punishment) He is serving an eight-year prison sentence for armed robbery.the prison system also the prison service BrE The prison system needs to be reformed.a prison cell (=a room where a prisoner lives) Each prison cell can hold up to four prisoners.a prison guard also a prison officer/warder BrE Last month, a prisoner attacked two prison officers with a knife.a prison governor BrE a prison warden AmE (=the person in charge of a prison) The prison governor said he could not accept any more prisoners.the prison population (=all the prisoners in a country) The government wants to reduce the size of the prison population.a prison inmate (=someone who is kept in prison) Many of the other prison inmates claimed that they were innocent.People who are kept in prison are usually called prisoners. Prison inmates sound more formal.adjectives/nouns + prisonan open prison BrE (=one where prisoners are given more freedom, usually because they have committed less serious crimes) After two years, he was transferred to an open prison.a maximum security prison (=where prisoners are closely guarded) He was sent to a maximum security prison where prisoners are kept in their cells almost 23 hours a day.prepositionsin prison No one knew she had been in prison.out of prison He has been out of prison for three years now.phrasesspend/serve six months/two years etc in prison He spent four years in prison for burglary.spend/serve time in prison John had met Rick while serving time in prison.THESAURUS: prison jail a prison, or a similar smaller building where prisoners are kept for a short time: The strikers were put in jail. | Grover got caught for not paying his taxes and was sent to jail. | 58% of prisoners are in jail for non-violent crimes. | This old building is the jail that Butch Cassidy escaped from in 1887. | He was taken to a cell in the Los Angeles County Jail. gaol /dʒeɪl/ BrE another way of spelling jail. Gaol is less common than jail: He spent the night in gaol. penitentiary /ˌpenəˈtenʃəri, ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri/ AmE a large prison for people who are guilty of serious crimes: the Ohio State Penitentiary | The murderer served 10 years at the penitentiary in Stillwater. | We visited the abandoned federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island. correctional facility AmE formal an official word for a prison: 1,000 prisoners rioted at the North County Correctional Facility. detention centre BrE detention center AmE a place where young people who have done something illegal are kept, because they are too young to go to prison. Also used about a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept: He is being held at the Harmondsworth detention centre, near Heathrow airport. | Kevin, who had been abandoned by his mother, had been in and out of detention centres all his life. | a juvenile detention center (=for young offenders) open prison BrE a prison in which prisoners have more freedom than in an ordinary prison, usually because their crimes were less serious: In some open prisons, prisoners are allowed to go home at weekends. cell a small room in a prison or police station, where someone is kept as a punishment: a prison cell | Conditions were poor, and there were several prisoners to one cell (=in the same cell).
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