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house of correction

惩戒所,教养院,惩教所,矫治所

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a place for the confinement and reform of persons convicted of minor offenses and not regarded as confirmed criminals.

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Examples

  • This Congress will welcome more women than ever before at 19 percent of the House and 20 percent of the Senate.

  • Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.

  • He then provides some insight into his psyche - complete with Animal House reference.

  • Even the arguably more democratic House is only at 10 percent black members.

  • While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.

  • It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.

  • A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.

  • On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

  • This mania for correction shows itself too in relation to the authorities themselves.

  • Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.