chain gang

美 [ˈtʃeɪn ɡæŋ]英 [ˈtʃeɪn ɡæŋ]
  • n.一群被链子拴在一起服劳役的囚犯

复数: chain gangs

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noun

一群被链子拴在一起服劳役的囚犯
a group of prisoners chained together and forced to work

chain gang

频次

  • 1
    N-COUNT (尤指美国旧时)锁在一起服劳役的囚犯
    In the United States, a chain gang is a group of prisoners who are chained together to do work outside their prison. Chain gangs existed especially in former times.

noun

1
a gang of convicts chained together

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  1. I would go to the chain gang .

    我得进带镣囚犯队。

  2. Only the greatest chain gang movie of all time .

    那只是一直以来最伟大的囚犯电影。

  3. All your big-time driving around , you never seen a chain gang before ?

    你原来到处逛的时候,你从来没见过苦力囚犯?

  4. In 1959 , James Carter was working on a chain gang in Mississippi .

    1959年,身为囚犯的詹姆斯·卡特正在密西西比河畔服劳役。

  5. I would go to the chain gang . I ran to the cabin and put the life-belt on .

    我得进带镣囚犯队。我奔进船舱,带上救生带。

  6. Alabama 's experiment is to be widened to include more prisoners , and other States , such as Arkansas and Arizona , will very probably introduce their own chain gang schemes .

    阿拉巴马很快就要在更多的囚犯身上使用这个办法,像阿肯和亚利桑那等其他几个州也很有可能实行各自的一套串绑囚犯的办法。

  7. They wore white uniforms with the words ' Chain Gang ' on their backs and , in groups of five , were shackled together in leg irons joined by an eight-foot chain .

    罪犯们穿着白色号衣,背上写有ChainGang字样。他们五人一组,用一条八英尺长的铁链把他们的腿拴在一起。

  8. They are sentenced to fifteen years on a chain gang , and they escape , twelve of then chained together at the ankle , getting by the guards posing as an immense charm bracelet .

    他们被判处十五年牢役,用铁链拴在一起。后来他们成功出逃,十二名囚徒被拴住脚踝,伪装成一个巨大的魅力手镯骗过了警卫。

  9. It is more that , to some critics , using prison labour reeks of exploitation and , as Steve Fraser and Joshua Freeman , two US academics , argued in an April article , summons up " images of the black chain gang in the American South " .

    正如美国学者史蒂夫弗雷泽(stevefraser)和乔舒亚弗里曼(joshuafreeman)在4月份的一篇文章中所言,这还让人联想到“美国南部大批充当苦力的黑人囚犯画面”。