in the penal colony
英汉例句
- A few years later, a new penal colony in Australia eased the strain;
几年之后,殖民地澳大利亚被启用作新的流放地,紧张局面得到缓解。 - The area was settled in 1824 as a penal colony. Population, 734,750.
1824年开始此地区作为苦役犯的殖民地而居住。 - A few years later, a new penal colony in Australia eased the strain; and prisons shifted firmly back to state control, at least where states existed, for the next two centuries.
几年之后,殖民地澳大利亚被启用作新的流放地,紧张局面得到缓解。 在此后的两个世纪里,英国政府坚决地将监狱管理收归国有,至少在大英帝国的势力范围内。 - In recent days a police officer who murdered an independent journalist in Ingushetia was put under house arrest after the court decided that his two-year penal-colony sentence was overly harsh.
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