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 jail [dʒel]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 监牢, 监狱, 拘留所

vt. 监禁, 下狱

[法] 监狱




    jail
    [ noun ]
    1. a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

    2. <noun.artifact>
    [ verb ]
    1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

    2. <verb.social> gaol immure imprison incarcerate jug lag put away put behind bars remand
      The suspects were imprisoned without trial
      the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life


    Jail \Jail\, v. t.
    To imprison. [R.] --T. Adams (1614).

    [Bolts] that jail you from free life. --Tennyson.


    Jail \Jail\ (j[=a]l), n. [OE. jaile, gail, gayhol, OF. gaole,
    gaiole, jaiole, F. ge[^o]le, LL. gabiola, dim. of gabia cage,
    for L. cavea cavity, cage. See {Cage}.]
    A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons
    held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with
    reference to some future judicial proceeding. [Written also
    {gaol}.]

    This jail I count the house of liberty. --Milton.

    {Jail delivery}, the release of prisoners from jail, either
    legally or by violence.

    {Jail delivery commission}. See under {Gaol}.

    {Jail fever} (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling
    it, generated in jails and other places crowded with
    people; -- called also {hospital fever}, and {ship fever}.


    {Jail liberties}, or {Jail limits}, a space or district
    around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on
    certain conditions, allowed to go at large. --Abbott.

    {Jail lock}, a peculiar form of padlock; -- called also
    {Scandinavian lock}.

    Gaol \Gaol\ (j[=a]l), n. [See {Jail}.]
    A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or
    provisional imprisonment; a jail. [Preferably, and in the
    United States usually, written {jail}.]

    {Commission of general gaol delivery}, an authority conferred
    upon judges and others included in it, for trying and
    delivering every prisoner in jail when the judges, upon
    their circuit, arrive at the place for holding court, and
    for discharging any whom the grand jury fail to indict.
    [Eng.]

    {Gaol delivery}. (Law) See {Jail delivery}, under {Jail}.

    1. In interviews from jail, the former chairman of the Bank of Crete has claimed Papandreou and other high government officials received millions of dollars in payoffs and authorized the looting of his bank.
    2. Mike Hough, director of the Institute for Strategic Studies at University of Pretoria, suggested that some ANC leaders might prefer that Mandela die in jail.
    3. Its far-flung voters would be unlikely to approve bonds to fund a jail, hospitals or other public works; and services would suffer, they contend.
    4. A Utah man received a suspended jail sentence and paid a $2,500 fine for understating his income so his wife could get a $5,000 student loan.
    5. Police on Sunday searched for five men who escaped from Cork jail during a nationwide strike by Ireland's 1,900 guards, and disturbances were reported at two Dublin prisons.
    6. The bill unveiled Thursday requires the whipping post in addition to jail time for anyone convicted of dealing hard drugs or involving children in the drug world.
    7. Robert Nance, 43, of Huntington, was convicted Aug. 1 for conspiring to kill a federal witness, attempting to kill witnesses and a jail escape charge.
    8. If charged and convicted of the lesser crime of endangering flight safety, they could receive a maximum of seven years in jail. However, the presiding judge of the court in Taiwan's capital, Taipei, said the hijackers could expect leniency.
    9. Last week, in a similar trial, seven people who allegedly stole weapons from troops during the June 3-4 military attack on pro-democracy demonstrators were given jail terms of up to 13 years. Another seven who turned themselves in were let go.
    10. And both governors used the occasion to call for tougher fines and possible jail terms against violators.
    11. In sentencing them, Logan District Judge Dale L. Prince ordered them to apologize to the congregation or face contempt of court, with a possible year in jail and $500 fine.
    12. Chairman Steven Rothmeier declined to comment, joking that he could go to jail for spilling insider information.
    13. I remember particularly the line that goes 'you can't go to jail for what you're thinking'.
    14. Although he has been in jail since Jan. 16, his family has not been allowed to visit him.
    15. Under law, McCarthy can be hel in jail as long as the grand jury hearing evidence in the case remains in session.
    16. Robu said one of Ceausescu's daughters, Zoia-Elena, and another son, Valentin, were in jail but were not leading figures in the ousted regime.
    17. As with any summer camp, there are field trips: to the Broward County Courthouse, jail and crime lab.
    18. If convicted, Barrie could get up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine.
    19. Mrs. Mattar was quoted as saying she wants to divorce her husband, who is in jail for attempted murder, and marry Marak.
    20. The eight arrested yesterday face up to 15 years in jail.
    21. Sandra Schultz's worst nightmare came true last week when the man convicted of killing her 19-year-old son and his fiance walked out of jail.
    22. The Trupps, being held without bail in El Dorado County jail, were arraigned today before U.S. Magistrate Monte Reece in South Lake Tahoe.
    23. Waters suspended all of the jail time, provided Berendzen stays out of trouble for one year and continues treatment.
    24. Zhang was transferred from a hospital to a jail in Fukuoka on Dec. 31, and sent to a detention house in Tokyo Jan. 11.
    25. However, there is little expectation that the notoriously slow justice system will follow up with a jail sentence. Collor is even hoping to regain his political rights, which were stripped for eight years.
    26. "They've got two eyes and a nose and a mouth just like me. These boys have just gone wrong." _ Elizabeth Burke, 85, a resident of Agawam, Mass., speaking about jail inmates who plow and fertilize garden plots for senior citizens.
    27. The judge ordered an examination of Nosair by a private doctor after Warren disputed a Bellevue report that his client could return to the jail's general population.
    28. Klevenhagen said medical staff members at the jail were continuing to screen about 3,200 inmates who said their medical histories include ailments, like immune system problems, that make them more susceptible to the infection.
    29. Under existing law, the maximum penalty for offenders is one year in jail and/or a $2,000 fine for individuals and a $25,000 fine for corporations.
    30. Most of the 23 have deferred their initial two-year stints until they graduate, meaning that possible six-year jail terms loom in the future.
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