prisoners

英 [ˈprɪznəz]

美 [ˈprɪzənərz]

n.  囚犯; 犯人; 羁押候审者; 被(敌人等)关起来的人; 俘虏; 战俘
prisoner的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 囚犯；犯人
  Aprisoneris a person who is kept in a prison as a punishment for a crime that they have committed.
  1. The committee is concerned about the large number of prisoners sharing cells.
     这个委员会对牢房拥挤问题表示担忧。
• N-COUNT 俘虏；战俘
  Aprisoneris a person who has been captured by an enemy, for example in war.
  1. ...wartime hostages and concentration-camp prisoners...
     战时的人质和集中营的战俘
  2. He was held prisoner in Vietnam from 1966 to 1973...
     他在1966年到1973年间被作为战俘关押在越南。
  3. He was taken prisoner in North Africa in 1942.
     他于1942年在北非被俘。
• N-COUNT 为…所困的人；陷于…不能摆脱的人
  If you say that you are aprisoner ofa situation, you mean that your are trapped by it.
  1. We are all prisoners of our childhood and feel an obligation to it...
     我们都无法忘记自己的童年时代，觉得仍然为它所缚。
  2. She was a prisoner of her own ego.
     她为自己的自尊心所困。

双语例句

• The prison Governor criticised some of his officers who shouted insults at prisoners on the roof.
  监狱长批评了一些站在屋顶上大声辱骂囚犯的狱警。
• Six prisoners are still at large along with four dangerous recidivists.
  4个危险的惯犯和其他6名犯人仍然在逃。
• They massacred all the prisoners.
  他们残杀了所有的俘虏。
• Leeds Prison is reported to have almost double the number of prisoners it's designed to accommodate.
  据报道利兹监狱里犯人的数量几乎已达该监狱设计可容纳人数的两倍了。
• A number of the prisoners we saw are starving
  我们看到的一些囚犯快要饿死了。
• Up to a thousand prisoners may be on the loose inside the jail
  监狱里可能有上千名囚犯跑出了牢房。
• The report says there is widespread and routine torture of political prisoners in the country
  这份报告称该国一直普遍存在折磨政治犯的现象。
• A general amnesty for political prisoners may be in the offing.
  可能即将对政治犯实行大赦。
• Rampaging prisoners ran riot through Strangeways jail.
  斯特兰韦斯监狱里那些狂暴的囚犯们全都失去了控制。
• He based his conclusions on the evidence given by the captured prisoners.
  他根据被俘囚犯提供的证据得出了这个结论。