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词汇 detaining
释义 detaining
present participle ofdetain
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.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Putting people in prison
at His/Her Majesty's pleasureidiom
bang someone up
bar
behind barsidiom
bird
commit
immured
imprison
imprisonment
in custody
incarcerate
intern
pen
remand
remand someone in custody
restraint
rot
rot in jail, prison, etc.idiom
solitary
stretch

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Examples of detaining


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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Those comprise the seizure and detaining of strays and the duty on district and borough councils to enforce the collar and tag law.
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Those comprise the seizure and detaining of strays and a duty on the district or borough council to enforce the collar and tag law.
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By 1985, when our intelligence was perfect, we should have removed the godfathers by detaining them under the internment powers.
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The deductions were made to offset payments that the officer prisoners of war and protected personnel were supposed to receive from the detaining power.
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I think he will find that there is very good reason for detaining these persons.
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I cannot conceive that any magistrates would wrongly exercise the power of detaining until ten.
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I realise that we may be detaining her from her dinner, but there are many of my constituents whose businesses are in dire straits.
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The first is for detaining him here this afternoon.
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The cost of detaining a person in police port accommodation is assessed by the port authority concerned and varies from one port to another.
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Effective punishment, which depends upon effective conviction, is to impose forms of punishment that are effective in deterring or detaining.
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Depriving a person of his liberty by detaining him in hospital is a serious invasion of rights.
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I wonder whether any of us would think there is very much difference between detaining the child as a punishment or not as a punishment.
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The man tried to escape, and while detaining him the officers were attacked by a group of ten to 15 men.
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I come now to the question of detaining food for testing.
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It is better to restrict liberty in such cases under careful judicial oversight than to go down the road of detaining people indefinitely without trial.
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