| 词汇 | jailer |
| 释义 | jailer noun[ C ] (also UKold-fashionedgaoler)uk /ˈdʒeɪ.lər/ us /ˈdʒeɪ.lɚ/ a prison guard: 监狱看守 Jailers make hourly safety checks of cells. She wasn't assertive enough to yell at inmates when she began to work as a jailer. The gaoler returned with a bowl of stew. Jailers realized he was missing at morning roll call. They fear a cell regime would make them vulnerable to abuse by jailers. Jailers estimate that more than half of their inmates got into trouble because of alcoholism or drug addiction. He sometimes seemed more like her gaoler than her husband. Prisons & parts of prisons approved school Bastille boot camp borstal brig gaol gaoler halfway house HMP open prison panopticon penal colony penitentiary prison straightjacket straitjacket the gulag warder young offender institution youth custody jailer | American Dictionaryjailer noun[ C ] us/ˈdʒeɪ·lər/ a person in charge of a jail or of the prisoners there Examples of jailerjailer For instance, both men are given social status over the soldier and the jailer through a number of visual devices. A figure obsessed with power, the jailer derides the prisoner, repudiating her piety in an exercise of strength over both her and the gates to heaven which he controls. A jailer cuffing his wrist to that of a prisoner for an hour or two is a matter of routine. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English A jailer though who cuffs himself to his prisoner for thirty-six long years is himself no longer a free man. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English People have to come to realise that the so-called liberators have become their jailers. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Medical and nursing staff detest having to be jailers one minute and nurses the next. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The fact is that fear and aggression on the part of the jailers mobilised violence on the part of the prisoner that understanding would never, never have provoked. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Intended as a prison, it had eight cells and a jailer's residence, all of which opened onto a central courtyard. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Awaiting trial, he overpowered the jailer and stole a horse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Historically, terms such as jailer (also spelled jailor or gaoler), jail guard, prison guard, and turnkey have also been used. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Cells were on the top floor, and the jailers' living quarters were on the lower level. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When his jail sentence was almost complete, his jailers added ten more years to it. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The jailer was not at home but his wife was. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. His gentleness, his resignation, and his exact observance of all rules had not failed to make an impression on his jailers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It also does not correspond to the historical reality, since the king's jailers did not hide the fact; on the contrary, they publicised it. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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