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. 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 You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Delaying and wasting time Examples of detainingdetaining 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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those comprise the seizure and detaining of strays and a duty on the district or borough council to enforce the collar and tag law. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By 1985, when our intelligence was perfect, we should have removed the godfathers by detaining them under the internment powers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The deductions were made to offset payments that the officer prisoners of war and protected personnel were supposed to receive from the detaining power. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think he will find that there is very good reason for detaining these persons. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot conceive that any magistrates would wrongly exercise the power of detaining until ten. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I realise that we may be detaining her from her dinner, but there are many of my constituents whose businesses are in dire straits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The first is for detaining him here this afternoon. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The cost of detaining a person in police port accommodation is assessed by the port authority concerned and varies from one port to another. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Effective punishment, which depends upon effective conviction, is to impose forms of punishment that are effective in deterring or detaining. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Depriving a person of his liberty by detaining him in hospital is a serious invasion of rights. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The man tried to escape, and while detaining him the officers were attacked by a group of ten to 15 men. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I come now to the question of detaining food for testing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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