jail是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 监狱，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Martin remembered how often, how astringently, Gottlieb had sneered at "dese merry vedding or jail bells."
-- When Mr. Dr. Arrowsmith's done looked at de clues, You'll sit in jail a-singin' dem Bac-ter-i-uh Blues.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she paid the coachmanshe took her money out of a hard steel purse, and she kept thepurse in a very jail of a bag which hung upon her arm by a heavychain, and shut up like a bite.
-- Fromthat time, Miss Murdstone kept the keys in her own little jail allday, and under her pillow all night, and my mother had no moreto do with them than I had.
-- 'Maidstone Jail is a safer place of detention,' observed Traddles;'and though the law may be longer in fighting us, and may not beable to right us so completely as you can, there is no doubt of itspunishing you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, the morning dawned, and there was the jail itself cold, black, and dreary, and very real indeed.
-- As they come through the dismal passages, some officers of the jail who are in waiting there, congratulate him, in their rough way, on his release.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, in pursuance of that order, on the 28th day of April, at eight o'clock in the morning, the jail warden entered the dingy corridor of the woman's ward.
-- The same feeling was experienced by the jail matron, notwithstanding she was accustomed to bad air.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The most heedless passer-by feels the depressing influences of a place where the sound of wheels creates a sensation; there is a grim look about the houses, a suggestion of a jail about those high garden walls.
-- You can no more imagine the one without the other, than you can think of a jail without a turnkey.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For some days, I even kept close at home, and looked out at the kitchen door with the greatest caution and trepidation before going on an errand, lest the officers of the County Jail should pounce upon me.
-- While my mind was thus engaged, I thought of the beautiful young Estella, proud and refined, coming towards me, and I thought with absolute abhorrence of the contrast between the jail and her.
-- In jail and out of jail, in jail and out of jail, in jail and out of jail.
-- (I had come out of Kingston Jail last on a vagrancy committal.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The jail might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have been the jail, the town-hall might have been either, or both, or anything else, for anything that appeared to the contrary in the graces of their construction.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here I stand, with the contamination of a jail upon me; but it is possible that you may think me better suited to her than her former husband was.'
-- Itself a close and confined prison for debtors, it contained within it a much closer and more confined jail for smugglers.
-- But Little Dorrit's solicitude to get to her father, and to carry the joyful tidings to him, and not to leave him in his jail a moment with this happiness in store for him and still unknown to him, did more for her speedy restoration than all the skill and attention on earth could have done.
-- Below the Bank was a suite of three or four rooms with barred windows, which had the appearance of a jail for criminal rats.
-- He saw that he was cherished in her grateful remembrance secretly, and that they resented him with the jail and the rest of its belongings.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In their gamesome but still serious way, one whispers to the other "Jack, he's robbed a widow;" or, "Joe, do you mark him; he's a bigamist;" or, "Harry lad, I guess he's the adulterer that broke jail in old Gomorrah, or belike, one of the missing murderers from Sodom."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Arter I was locked up for the night, the row and din outside made the thundering old jail so silent, that I could almost have beat my brains out against the iron plates of the door.'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the Judge heard I had been robbed, he sent me to jail to make the thieves happy; and when I came away I saw a fine bunch of grapes hanging on a vine.
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