| 单词 | penitentiary |
| 释义 | penitentiary From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishJail & punishmentpenitentiarypen‧i‧ten‧tia‧ry /ˌpenəˈtenʃəri/ noun (plural penitentiaries) [countable] American EnglishSCJa prison – used especially in the names of prisonsthe North Carolina state penitentiary► see thesaurus at prisonExamples from the Corpuspenitentiary• If Kili is a penitentiary, Bikini is the penthouse suite.• the abandoned federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island• Tom Martell sits in the federal penitentiary at Las Vegas, a prisoner of conscience.• the North Carolina State Penitentiary• the Ohio State penitentiary• The turn-off for the penitentiary appears too suddenly out of flat scrub.• When I arrived back from the penitentiary, Gloria was in my room asleep.• Other men in the penitentiary kept garden snakes, rats and pigeons for pets..• He has been out of the penitentiary for one week and the suit is his prison issue.• He helped me get out the penitentiary. |
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