| 释义 |
jailhouse /dʒeɪlhaʊs/ [countable] (name) a small local prison, especially in the past（尤指过去的）地方小型监狱◆the jailhouse housed the sheriff and his family as well as the prisoners.这间监狱住着县治安官、他的家人以及囚犯。ⓘ jailhouse is sometimes used as a less formal word for prison in compounds, and in journalism. * jailhouse 有时可以代替 prison 构成复合词，用于不太正式的场合和新闻报道◆he became something of a jailhouse lawyer (= a prisoner who knows a lot about the law).他差不多成了一名狱中律师。◆two prisoners die in jailhouse fire (= newspaper headline).两囚犯死于狱中大火。 |