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单词 reformatory
释义
reformatory
noun[C]
USold-fashioned
uk
/rɪˈfɔː.mə.tər.i/us
/rɪˈfɔːr.mə.tɔːr.i/
(especiallyin the past) atypeofschoolwhereyoungpeoplewho havebrokenthelawaresentinsteadofprison:
（尤指旧时的）感化院，少年管教所，青少年教养院
For thecabholdup, Benny wasplacedin a reformatory foralmosttwoyears.因为抢劫出租车，本尼被送去了感化院将近两年。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Types of school
  • boarding school
  • business school
  • charter school
  • coeducational
  • comp
  • comprehensive
  • conservatory
  • elementary school
  • grade school
  • gymnasium
  • junior
  • lycée
  • reform school
  • secondary school
  • selective
  • senior high school
  • single-sex
  • special school
  • superschool
  • varsity
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reformatory
adjective
uk
/rɪˈfɔː.mə.tər.i/us/rɪˈfɔːr.mə.tɔːr.i/
intendedtochangesomething inorderto make itbetter:
起革新作用的，起改良作用的
the reformatoryobjectivesofliberalfreetrade自由贸易的改革性目标
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making things better
  • add salt tosomethingidiom
  • allay
  • alleviate
  • alleviation
  • ameliorate
  • cultivate
  • leavening
  • liven(something)up
  • lubricate
  • make a differenceidiom
  • make a world of differenceidiom
  • relieve
  • revitalize
  • revivify
  • revolutionize
  • salvage
  • salve
  • save the dayidiom
  • sharpen
  • tonic
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(Definition ofreformatoryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofreformatory

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In the 1920s we had the setting up of the borstals which were supposed to be a more civilised form of custody than the reformatories.
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Few of us will agree that it is due to anything more than mere mischief that many of these lads are in reformatories or prisons.
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One can send boys to reformatories; but, as the minimum period is two years, that would seem far too grave a punishment for this offence.
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There was a committee appointed last year to report on the salaries and conditions of service of officers in industrial schools and reformatories.
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The numbers are, for reformatories forty boys and four girls and for industrial schools eighty-one boys and four girls.
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In the case of certified reformatories half the cost was to be so borne.
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The children cannot wholly be sheltered from the world as it is, even when we shut them away in reformatories and boarding schools.
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Our prisons, our reformatories, our remand homes, are filled to overflowing, many prisoners living three in a cell.
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Today, our prisons have three in a cell, and our reformatories are overfull.
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At that time such schools were called reformatories.
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The only alternative to sending them to prison is to send them to reformatories or industrial schools, and then you run the risk of turning out hardened criminals.
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With the overcrowding of prisons the state came to believe that it would be better to separate habitual drunkenness offenders and put them in what were then known as reformatories.
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Can they be sent to reformatories?
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I know that reformatories are not so bad as they used to be in the past, but the same class of criminals is still sent there.
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I think that, in the direction of the more careful subdivision of various types, we should find the most hopeful development of our industrial homes and reformatories.
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