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reformatory

UK // (rɪˈfɔːmətərɪ, -trɪ) //

感化院,教养院,劳改所,劳教所

Related Words

penitentiary教养所,监狱,教养院,教养cooler冷却器,冷藏室,冷器,冷藏箱jail监狱,监禁,牢狱之灾,牢房prison监狱,监禁,狱,狱中training school培训学校,训练学校,培训学院,培训班boot camp训练营,训练班,新训练营correctional facility管教所,惩戒机构,惩戒设施,惩戒所

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : serving or designed to reform: reformatory lectures; reformatory punishments.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural re·form·a·to·ries.

    • : Also called reform school . a penal institution for reforming young offenders, especially minors. See also juvenile detention center.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounreform school
Synonyms
cooler冷却器,冷藏室,冷器,冷藏箱jail监狱,监禁,牢狱之灾,牢房penitentiary教养所,监狱,教养院,教养prison监狱,监禁,狱,狱中boot camp训练营,训练班,新训练营correctional facility管教所,惩戒机构,惩戒设施,惩戒所correctional institution管教所,教养院,惩教机构,惩戒机构penal institution惩教机构,惩教所,刑罚机构,惩戒机构training school培训学校,训练学校,培训学院,培训班

Examples

  • The state reformatory was abandoned, and scheduled for demolition once the film was finished.

  • The Panopticon By Jenni Fagan A teenage heroine is sent to a reformatory in this dystopian novel.

  • Opposite him is Jack, whose previous experience in a reformatory has "put him wise," as he expresses it.

  • The answer is plain: as in other reformatory institutions, there will be some successes and some failures.

  • Massachusetts is charged with the support of a great number of charitable and reformatory institutions.

  • We miss, too, in the prison, another essential element of a reformatory institution.

  • In other parts of France, as well as in Barn, Jeanne's reformatory movements were looked upon with great disfavor.

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