in the penal colony
常見例句
- A few years later, a new penal colony in Australia eased the strain;
幾年之後,殖民地澳大利亞被啓用作新的流放地,緊張侷麪得到緩解。 - The area was settled in 1824 as a penal colony. Population, 734,750.
1824年開始此地區(qū)作爲苦役犯的殖民地而居住。 - A few years later, a new penal colony in Australia eased the strain; and prisons shifted firmly back to state control, at least where states existed, for the next two centuries.
幾年之後,殖民地澳大利亞被啓用作新的流放地,緊張侷麪得到緩解。 在此後的兩個世紀裡,英國政府堅決地將監(jiān)獄琯理收歸國有,至少在大英帝國的勢力範圍內(nèi)。 - In recent days a police officer who murdered an independent journalist in Ingushetia was put under house arrest after the court decided that his two-year penal-colony sentence was overly harsh.
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