gaol是什么意思

双语用例

• When convicted, there was only so much they could do to prevent a sentence of exemplary harshness and a bitter gaol experience.

• After all, unsettled debts would damage a man's economic status among local traders and could potentially land him in gaol.

• Styles regained consciousness only once the witch was back in gaol, but now seemed converted to a state of grace.

• If barrio leaders were gaoled or excessively fined, they retaliated by blocking labour demands or disappearing.

• They were desperately hungry, he wrote, being allowed less food than other prisoners in the same gaol.

• Most of those in gaol had been debtors or those awaiting trial.

• Just over half of the libel prosecutions of 1819-20 ended in some sort of sentence for the defendant, usually a few months in gaol.

• Stealing, drinking or leading a dissolute life were ways to escape desperate situations, but these offences could lead to gaol terms.