in the penal colony

常見例句

A few years later, a new penal colony in Australia eased the strain;
幾年之后，殖民地澳大利亞被啟用作新的流放地，緊張局面得到緩解。
The area was settled in 1824 as a penal colony. Population, 734,750.
1824年開始此地區(qū)作為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.
幾年之后，殖民地澳大利亞被啟用作新的流放地，緊張局面得到緩解。在此后的兩個世紀(jì)里，英國政府堅(jiān)決地將監(jiān)獄管理收歸國有，至少在大英帝國的勢力范圍內(nèi)。

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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