jailbird

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

Phil became a jailbird because of a now-notorious event which took place just a few yards from where we are sitting.
如今被炒得沸沸揚(yáng)揚(yáng)的那件事就發(fā)生在距離我們現(xiàn)在的座位僅幾碼遠(yuǎn)的地方，菲爾被捕也是因?yàn)樗?/li>
However, it was his role as brooding jailbird Michael Scofield in Prison Break that catapulted him firmly on to the TV A-list.
當(dāng)然最終使他名耀電視圈榜單的還是《越獄》中，小心謹(jǐn)慎的囚犯邁克爾·斯科菲爾德一角。
Former hippie, former jailbird, former aficionado of crack cocaine, Felix Dennis built one of the most successful privately owned magazine empires in the world.
做過嬉皮士，囚犯，可卡因成癮者后，F(xiàn)elix Dennis 建立的全世界最成功的私人媒體王國。

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

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