monkey house

• 拘留所

monkey house的用法和样例：

例句

1. He was detained in that house of detention.
   他在那个拘留所里被拘留了。
2. Once again we were shoved into a car which brought us to a building that before the war used to be the city's House of Detentions but had become a Gestapo prison.
   我们再次被推进一辆汽车，我们被送到一座建筑前，这儿战前是该市的拘留所，但是现已成为盖世太保监狱。

词汇搭配

• have a monkey on the house 房屋被抵押
• have a monkey on one's house 房屋被抵押