单词	jailbird
释义	jailbird /ˈdʒeɪlbəːd / noun informal A person who is or has been in prison, especially a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly: I was an escaped jailbird... Well that's interesting, because certainly for those of us who remember him in the '70s, he almost came across as an outlaw, as a jailbird, in fact many of his songs were about prison. Photographs in each cell - there are about 10 of them, plus an open eating area with tables for the less adventurous - depict various prison scenes and mugshots of some jailbirds. A professor at the University of Maryland's MBA program sends his students to prison for a ‘scared straight’ session - where they get to feel what it's like living behind bars, and talk to CEO jailbirds.
随便看	the law of the jungle the Left the length and breadth of the lesser evil (or the lesser of two evils) the Lido the lie (lay) of the land the life and soul of the party (the life of the party) the light of day the light of one's life the lights are on, but nobody's (or no one's)home the likes of the Line the line of least resistance the line (or path) of least resistance the lion's den the lion's share the Litany the little woman the Liturgy the living image of the long and the short of it the long (or strong) arm of the law the long/short/medium term Thelon River the Lords

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