| 词汇 | detain |
| 释义 | detain verb[ Toften passive ] uk /dɪˈteɪn/ us /dɪˈteɪn/ to force someone officially to stay in a place: 使留下;拘留，扣押 A suspect has been detained by the police for questioning.一名嫌疑人已被警察拘留接受进一步审讯。 Several of the injured were detained overnight in hospital.伤者中有几个人被留院观察了一夜。 to delay someone for a short length of time: （短时间地）耽搁，拖延 be unavoidably detainedI'm sorry I'm late - I was unavoidably detained.对不起我来晚了——没办法我被耽搁了一会儿。 detain someone at His/Her Majesty's pleasurelaw UKspecialized to keep someone in prison for as long as the courts feel is necessary: 无限期关押（某人） She was convicted of murder in 2008 and detained at Her Majesty's pleasure. Putting people in prison at His/Her Majesty's pleasureidiom bang someone up bar behind barsidiom bird commit imprison imprisonment in custody incarcerate incarceration intern lock pen remand someone in custody restraint rot rot in jail, prison, etc.idiom self-surrender stretch You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Delaying and wasting time detain | American Dictionarydetain verb[ T ] us/dɪˈteɪn/ to force someone officially to stay in a place: A suspect is being detained by the police for further questioning. To detain someone is also to delay that person for a short period of time: We were detained in traffic and arrived at the theater a little late. Examples of detaindetain Another 308 were detained, and twenty-one were arrested, some of whom were later tried in courts and were likely to be sentenced to jail. I have outlined how loumas ' make ' local space by detaining farmers in their villages of origin. Most of the other prisoners were released, except five who were detained to await the royal will. Complaints about being detained emerge in the letters and diaries only when the rationale for quarantine began to appear to have been undermined. We have been obliged to use force in order to proceed with the seizure of merchandise that we detained in carts on the sidings. Strangely enough, the village head was not among the suspects who had been detained in the afternoon. In contrast to the period of 1954 to 1956, this time the mood of those detained was transformed. However, it is notable that despite greater concern with civil liberties today, considerably fewer patients were detained 100 years ago than now. The police complained about ' provocation ' when some observers demanded the release of opposition supporters who had been detained at one police station. The innkeeper also detained defendants at the request of the magistrate, or acted as a bailsman for defendants found guilty. Any vehicle violating exhaust norms, as indicated by an opacity meter reading, is fined and detained until a bond has been posted. Indeed, the majority of detained ships were held only between a few hours and a few days, depending on the illness and circumstances. Though many assumed that the plaintiffs were in prison for their refusal to lend, the crown's position was that they were detained for obstruction rather than non-compliance. Even if one agrees with the foregoing brief argument-and many, of course, do not-it is plausible to claim that multiple offenders are on notice that they may be preventively detained. After his ouster, he went back to college to obtain a postgraduate diploma in parliamentary studies and was subsequently detained for several months and then released in 2004. See all examples of detain These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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