cell

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n. 单间牢房; 牢房; (修道士或修女住的)小房间; 细胞

复数：cells　

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同义词辨析

prison cell jail【导航词义：监狱】

prisonn. 监狱，看守所

〔辨析〕

普通用词，指具体的某所监狱时，前面可用冠词，但通常情况下，该词前面不用冠词，侧重表示被监禁状态。

〔例证〕

It is a maximum-security prison.
这是一所戒备森严的监狱。
They live opposite the prison.
他们住在监狱对面。
That thief received a two-year prison sentence.
那个小偷获刑2年。
He was sent to prison for embezzlement.
他因挪用公款而入狱。

celln. 单间牢房，囚室

〔辨析〕

指监狱或警察局里的单人牢房或小隔离室。

〔例证〕

He couldn't remember why he was in the cell at the police station after he came to.
他苏醒过来之后不记得自己为什么会在警察局的隔离室里。
No pictures were allowed to be hung on the walls of the prison cell.
囚室的四壁不允许挂任何图片。

jailn. 监狱，看守所

〔辨析〕

词义同 prison, 可换用。

〔例证〕

an overcrowded jail/prison
过于拥挤的监狱
Some demonstrators were thrown in jail/prison for a few days.
一些示威者被送进监狱关了几天。
She has gotten out of jail/prison.
她已经出狱了。

牛津词典

noun

单间牢房；牢房
a room for one or more prisoners in a prison or police station
（修道士或修女住的）小房间
a small room without much furniture in which a monk or nun lives
细胞
the smallest unit of living matter that can exist on its own. All plants and animals are made up of cells .
1. blood cells
  血细胞
2. the nucleus of a cell
  细胞核
（大结构中的）小隔室（如蜂房巢室）
each of the small sections that together form a larger structure, for example a honeycomb
电池
a device for producing an electric current, for example by the action of chemicals or light
1. a photoelectric cell
  光电池
（尤指秘密的）政治小组，基层组织
a small group of people who work as part of a larger political organization, especially secretly
1. a terrorist cell
  恐怖分子小组
（计算机电子表格的）单元格
one of the small squares in a spreadsheet computer program in which you enter a single piece of data
（计算机电子表格的）单元格
one of the small squares in a spreadsheet computer program in which you enter a single piece of data

柯林斯词典

N-COUNT 细胞
Acellis the smallest part of an animal or plant that is able to function independently. Every animal or plant is made up of millions of cells.
1. Those cells divide and give many other different types of cells.
  那些细胞分裂，产生出许多不同种类的细胞。
2. ...blood cells...
  血细胞
3. Soap destroys the cell walls of bacteria.
  肥皂破坏细菌的细胞壁。
单人牢房；(修道院的)单人小室
Acellis a small room in which a prisoner is locked. Acellis also a small room in which a monk or nun lives.
N-COUNT (大型组织中的)基层组织
You can refer to a small group of people within a larger organization as acell.
1. ...Communist Party cells.
  共产党的基层组织

英英释义

noun

(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms
a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
Synonym:electric cell
a room where a prisoner is kept
Synonym:jail cellprison cell
small room in which a monk or nun lives
Synonym:cubicle
any small compartment
1. the cells of a honeycomb
a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
Synonym:cellular telephonecellular phonecellphonemobile phone
a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
Synonym:cadre

双语例句

One prisoner claimed he'd been dragged to a cell, stripped and beaten.
一名犯人声称他曾被拖进一间牢房，全身被脱光并遭到毒打。
Most small cell lung cancers are the oat cell type.
大部分小细胞肺癌属于燕麦细胞癌。
The prisoners overpowered their guards and locked them in a cell.
囚犯们制服了监狱看守，并将他们锁进了牢房。
They put us in a cell, and the next day some bumbling judge bound us over
他们把我们关进监狱，第二天一个糊涂法官令我们具结保证。
The prisoner started to wash down the walls of his cell.
囚犯开始冲洗各自囚室的墙壁。
Enucleated cells are prepared by removing cell nuclei in the presence of the drug, cytochalasin B.
无核细胞是通过药物、细胞松弛素b把细胞核去掉制备的。
Microscopic examination of a cell's chromo-somes can reveal the sex of the fetus.
利用显微镜检查细胞染色体可以发现胎儿的性别。
They beat them up and locked them in a cell.
他们殴打了他们，并把他们锁在一间囚室里。
Three prisoners were sharing one small cell 3 metres by 2 metres.
3个囚犯关在一个3米长2米宽的小牢房里。
The smell in the cell was revolting
牢房的气味令人作呕。