cell
单词辨析：
普通用词，指具体的某所监狱时，前面可用冠词，但通常情况下，该词前面不用冠词，侧重表示被监禁状态。
It is a maximum-security prison.
这是一所戒备森严的监狱。
They live opposite the prison.
他们住在监狱对面。
That thief received a two-year prison sentence.
那个小偷获刑2年。
He was sent to prison for embezzlement.
他因挪用公款而入狱。
指监狱或警察局里的单人牢房或小隔离室。
He couldn't remember why he was in the cell at the police station after he came to.
他苏醒过来之后不记得自己为什么会在警察局的隔离室里。
No pictures were allowed to be hung on the walls of the prison cell.
囚室的四壁不允许挂任何图片。
词义同 prison, 可换用。
an overcrowded jail/prison
过于拥挤的监狱
Some demonstrators were thrown in jail/prison for a few days.
一些示威者被送进监狱关了几天。
She has gotten out of jail/prison.
她已经出狱了。
相关例句：
The prisoner started to wash down the walls of his cell.
囚犯开始冲洗各自囚室的墙壁。
The smell in the cell was revolting
牢房的气味令人作呕。
How many cancer cell does cancer after all inside patient system?
癌症患者体内到底有多少个癌细胞？
You become a rebel if you are banged up in a cell 23 hours a day.
要是一天23小时被关在一间牢房里，谁都会造反的。
They beat them up and locked them in a cell.
他们殴打了他们，并把他们锁在一间囚室里。
He was left to sober up in a police cell.
他被留在一间拘留室里醒酒。