jail
n. 监牢, 监狱, 拘留所 vt. 监禁, 下狱
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监狱；监牢；拘留所
监禁；下狱
释义与例句
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1.
A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
监狱
监仓
可数 不可数serve time in jail
released from jail
jail sentence
He was sent to jail for theft.
She visited her brother in jail.
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2.
Confinement in a jail.
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The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
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In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
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A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
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To imprison.
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From Middle English gayole, gaylle, gaille, gayle, gaile, from Old French gaiole, gayolle, gaole, from Medieval Latin gabiola, from Late Latin caveola (“small cage, cell”), a diminutive of Latin cavea (“cavity, coop, cage”). Doublet of caveola and related to cage. More at cajole. Fully displaced native Middle English quartern (“prison, jail, cell”), from Old English cweartern (“jail, prison”). Partially displaced native Middle English lok, from Old English loc (“enclosure, pen; jail, prison”), whence lock; and Middle English carcern, from Old English carcern, from Latin carcer (“prison, jail”). Compare these Old English words, all meaning “jail”: heaþor, heolstorloca (means also “jail cell”), clūstorloc, dung (also “dungeon”), hlinræced, nirwþ, nīedcleofa, hearmloca, and nearu.
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