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cellblock

/sel-blok/US // ˈsɛlˌblɒk //

牢房,囚室,囚房,囚禁区

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a unit of a prison consisting of a number of cells.

Examples

  • Inmates, said the corrections officer, “took eight hostages into a cellblock … They slit their throats.”

  • Bridge told Ligon that he could fight parole from the cellblock or the street and advised the street.

  • In a further breach of legislation, Mohamed el-Maligi says he was held in the same cellblock as one 9-year-old boy.

  • A few days after their meet-cute, Russell was miraculously relocated into Morris' cellblock.

  • All the doors we'd passed in the cellblock were old, rusting things that dated back to when the base was first built.