jailbird

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈdʒeɪl.bɜːd]
• 美式音标 [ˈdʒeɪl.bɝːd]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. 囚犯；累犯；恶痞

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Phil became a jailbird because of a now-notorious event which took place just a few yards from where we are sitting.
  如今被炒得沸沸扬扬的那件事就发生在距离我们现在的座位仅几码远的地方，菲尔被捕也是因为它。
• However, it was his role as brooding jailbird Michael Scofield in Prison Break that catapulted him firmly on to the TV A-list.
  当然最终使他名耀电视圈榜单的还是《越狱》中，小心谨慎的囚犯迈克尔·斯科菲尔德一角。
• Former hippie, former jailbird, former aficionado of crack cocaine, Felix Dennis built one of the most successful privately owned magazine empires in the world.
  做过嬉皮士，囚犯，可卡因成瘾者后，Felix Dennis 建立的全世界最成功的私人媒体王国。

权威例句

• First, he becomes a jailbird, then a preacher, then a humbled mineworker, and, finally, a drug kingpin.
  NEWYORKER: Trigger-Happy
• She will be the most famous jailbird created during America's current campaign to bring errant executives to justice.
  ECONOMIST: Corporate crime
• One is LeapFrog, a start-up financed by Michael Milken, a former junk-bond financier and jailbird, and Larry Ellison, the boss of Oracle.
  ECONOMIST: Even Santa might not help

词组短语

短语

• T Jailbird 乡村流行
• Decoding Vonnegut s Jailbird 从互文性角度解读冯内古特之
• The jailbird brother 哥哥的累犯
• a jailbird in steels 带着镣铐的囚犯
• T Jailbird Blues 传统金属

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a person who has been in prison

柯林斯英英字典

• If you refer to someone as a jailbird, you mean that they are in prison, or have been in prison.