下面两句中定冠词的有无使句子的意思不同:
He worked in the jail. 他在监狱工作。
The police worked in jail. 警方把他收监。
confine，imprison，jail
这些动词都含“监禁”之意。
confine指监禁或幽禁；也指任何使行动受到限制的行为。
imprison较正式用词，多指较长时间的监禁。
jail(英国用gaol)多指审判之间的拘禁或对罪行较轻的罪犯的监禁。
jail，prison，cell
这些名词均有“牢房、监狱”之意。
jail(英国英语拼写为gaol)指收犯轻罪的人或未经判决的人的处所。
prison指触犯刑律的人被关押的地方，通常指判决后的罪犯居留地。
cell指单人牢房或几个人合住的小牢房。
Jails and temporary detention camps are overflowing.
监狱和临时拘留所里人满为患。
柯林斯例句
STREAM of foreigners trickles in and usually out, of the fetid jails of Bangkok.
虽然出入于恶臭的泰国曼谷监狱的外国人形形色色, 络绎不绝.
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Six of Brazil's 27 states have semi - privatized jails.
巴西27个州中有6个拥有半私立监狱.
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Twenty new jails are to be opened by 2012, and 13 old ones shut.
到2012年,20座新监狱将投入使用, 13所旧监狱关闭.
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Dozens of jails were smashed open and tens of thousands of patriots were set free.
有几十座监狱被砸开,放出了数以万计的爱国者.
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Jails are barred in with steel cages.
监禁就是指被关在铁笼子里.
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She was so ignorant of the world of police and jails and criminals.
警察、监狱、囚徒,这一切对她太陌生啦.
辞典例句
The pick of all the best jails in Georgia.
是从乔治亚州最好的监狱里挑选出来的.
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But human - rights groups say there are still more than 200 political prisoners in Cuban jails.
但是,人权组织说道,在古巴的监狱里仍有200多位政治犯被关押着.
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There are bad conditions in some jails.
有些监狱的状况很糟糕.
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Jails became the only institutions left open to the mentally ill 24 hours a day.
监狱就成了惟一的对精神病人一天24小时都开放的医院.
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This player is not in jails.
此玩家不在监狱里面.
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