jailbird

1 A forlorn, jailbird’s face with a nobby forehead running back into a bald scalp, a crooked nose and battered-looking cheekbones above which the eyes were fierce and watchful.

2 His descent from the heady heights of clubland king to tax-evading jailbird provides the show with an arc that is paralleled by other plot lines.

3 He's jailbird.

他是个囚犯。

4 When a 40-year-old jailbird named James Earl Ray was charged with King's murder, almost no one thought that was the end of the story.

5 What would it be like for him to suddenly discover that his old man was an astronaut, and not a jailbird?

6 Angus’s real name is Francis Dempsey, however, and he is neither an aristocrat nor even a Scotsman; he is an impetuous Irish jailbird with a bagful of cash swiped from the Irish Republican Army.

7 But now everyone looked upon her as a "jailbird.

但此时众人眼中她只是个囚犯。

8 In a sense, the corrections officers and civilian employees—everyone in town except for the vacation-home owners—are as constrained as the jailbirds.

9 Parliament may lack diversity in terms of gender balance but I am not sure we need jailbirds to add a new dimension to those who make our laws.

10 Twenty years later, an actress named Selma Vaz Dias, who wanted to dramatize Good Morning, Midnight on the radio, found her living in poverty and obscurity in the English countryside with a third husband who also ended an embezzler and a jailbird.

11 When Winnie had first told him of the marriage, he had exclaimed, “But you are marrying a jailbird!”

12 “They assume he’s a drug addict, gang member or jailbird because of an old-school mentality that tattoos are related to crime. “But don’t judge a book by its cover,” he said.

13 Liss divorce her jailbird husband to marry her tennis pro?

弗朗西·利斯会和她作囚徒的丈夫离婚，嫁给她打网球伙伴吗？

14 Accusatory eyes turned to Robert Moses, the fair’s demagogic president, who had a big stake in uplift and would have hated Warhol’s jailbirds.

15 Suppose the Times decided to run a story about convicted jailbird Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

16 Some say jailbirds may not collect rent while behind bars, and others are in favor of haggling cash advances and co-ownership of properties.

17 THE escape of a flock of jailbirds, including members of the Irish Republican Army, from Whitemoor prison in 1994 was an audacious affair.

18 An overdosing jailbird father stared back at me, buttering crackers with a silver coffee spoon.

19 In 2006 Ireland gave jailbirds a say; Israel and South Africa have also ruled disenfranchisement illegal, as did Hong Kong in 2009.

20 Afif's graduation from jailbird to jihadi shines a light on a prison system where staff shortages, overcrowding and corruption have allowed extremists to mingle and emerge as determined killers in the name of Islam.

1 有前科者

lag loser ex-con shuck twicer

2 犯人

prisoner

3 罪犯

criminal culprit yegg

4 惯犯

persistent offender recidivist outlaw repeater recidivism scofflaw lagger gaol-bird old lag prison bird recidivous h.c. habitual rounder twicer

5 累犯

recidivism recidivist recidivous repeater

6 囚犯

prisoner convict lag Con yardbird con inmate gaolbird correctional number lagger gaol-bird prison bird geezo hog

7 流氓

rough hood villain gorilla rascal loon hooligan vagabond scamp miscreant swashbuckler roughneck riffraff hellion triggerman yob rapscallion plug-ugly