penitentiary

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

倘使不得已而要对在监狱与白宫里度过四年作一选择的话, 我会说——监狱, 谢谢.

——《简明英汉词典》

The hotel lies back of a dingy passage and forms a rectangle very a modern penitentiary.

这家旅馆位于一条阴暗的小道后面,呈一个长方形,同一所现代罪犯教养所十分相似.

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The exact penitentiary ( or penalty ? ) where they are been held is under disclosed.

他们到底被关在哪座监狱 不得而知 .

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She was placed in the Dublin penitentiary for dealing in drugs by telephone.

她因通过德律风做毒品交易而被囚于都柏林监狱.

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While he was in the penitentiary her father died and the family broke up.

他坐牢的时候,她的父亲死了,家庭就拆散了.

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Fox River Penitentiary is an old prison. Guard towers and forbidding razor wire line the perimeter.

FoxRiver监狱是一个老监狱, 哨塔和铁丝网遍布周围.

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He worked as a warden at the state penitentiary.

他在这所州监狱任看守长.

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Lee is serving his sentence down at the penitentiary.

李正在监狱服刑.

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the North Carolina state penitentiary

北卡罗来纳州立监狱

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Next day Paul was sentenced to three years in the State Penitentiary and taken off.

第二天,保罗被判三年徒刑,随即解往州监狱.

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You want to spend the next 20 years in a federal penitentiary, starting tonight?

你难道想从今晚起到联邦监狱去服刑20年 吗 ?

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He did a stretch in the federal penitentiary.

他在联邦监狱服刑.

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Fox River Penitentiary is an old prison.

福克斯河收容所是一所老牌监狱.

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She called the penitentiary and asked to teach creative writing to inmates.

她打电话给监狱,想教犯人写作.

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Now , you remember when you went to visit my pop in Lewisburg Penitentiary?

还记得你去路易斯堡监狱探望过我父亲 吗 ?

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