| 词汇 | detainee |
| 释义 | detainee noun[ C ] uk /ˌdiː.teɪˈniː/ us /ˌdiː.teɪˈniː/ a person who has been officially ordered to stay in a prison or similar place, especially for political reasons: （尤指因政治原因的）被拘留者，被关押者 a political detainee政治犯 Synonyms captive inmate prisoner People held in prison captive cellmate co-prisoner con convict dead dead man walkingidiom detenu gaolbird hostage inmate internee jailbird lag lifer political prisoner pow prisoner prisoner of conscience prisoner of war detainee | American Dictionarydetainee noun[ C ] us/dɪˌteɪˈni/ someone kept in prison, esp. for political reasons: Less than half the detainees with lawyers have been given a trial date. Examples of detaineedetainee Another of the detainees was wanted for an assassination attempt on a local employer. The primary, if not singular, source of dissent was from the healthy detainees. It cultivated habits of obedience, and taught detainees to cooperate. Some detainees, determined to stave off the verbal diarrhea against which they had once fought, kept their mouths closed. Unlike the unfortunate victims of disease, who languished in the stations' isolation hospitals, healthy detainees were often burdened by boredom and frustration. Many detainees refused to confess because they would not agree to slander other people. We only have inadequate knowledge of the planned attacks, but we are sure of the detainee's involvement and of the attack's seriousness and imminence. British officers thought detainees' lurid petitions were exaggerated. Potential innocence of detainees is one of the strongest arguments against duress and other state-sanctioned violence one can think of. The former detainees were later to realize how grossly they had miscalculated both father and son. This article begins by examining detainees' family lives. By surrounding a space that cannot be penetrated with another culturally accessible and defined space, the nursery overwrites its infantile detainees with a legible text. The guilt of the detainee has to have been established beyond any doubt. This paper will explore some of the questions raised by the non-official sources, and look particularly at the experiences of healthy detainees at quarantine stations. The mere chance that a small proportion of detainees could be innocent might call for blanket restrictions on state violence in police custody. 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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