jail
单词辨析：
较正式用词，指将某人关入监狱或关押在某处，通常用被动语态。
They were imprisoned for possession of guns.
他们因持有枪支而被监禁。
Several government officials have been imprisoned by the anti-government rebels.
几名政府官员已被反政府的叛乱分子关押。
指将某人关在某处不许其离开。
The captive was immured in a dungeon for over one month.
那名俘虏被监禁在地牢中一个多月。
He immured his daughter in her bedroom.
他将自己的女儿关在其卧室里。
指出于政治原因或在战争时期不加审讯就扣押某人，通常用被动语态。
The leader of the opposing party was interned.
反对党领导人被扣押了。
A group of doctors were interned in a camp.
一队医生被拘留在一所营房内。
指将某人关入监狱，通常用被动语态。
The thief was jailed for one month.
那个小偷坐了一个月牢。
Was he jailed for embezzlement?
他是因为挪用公款而入狱的吗？
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：
Mr Garcia said his conscience was clear over the jail incidents
加西亚先生说他对监狱中发生的事件问心无愧。
He was found guilty of blasphemy and sentenced to three years in jail
他被判犯有亵渎神明罪，刑期3年。
The judge liked using the word 'wicked' of people he had sent to jail
这个法官喜欢使用“邪恶”一词来形容被他判罪入狱的人。
The rebels tunnelled out of a maximum security jail
叛乱者挖地道逃离了戒备最为森严的监狱。
One prisoner was still holding out on the roof of the jail.
一名犯人仍在监狱的房顶上顽抗。
Before sentence was passed, Mr Mills escaped from jail.
在宣判前，米尔斯先生越狱了。