detain

verb

/dɪˈteɪn/

动词形式

present simple I / you / we / they detain	/dɪˈteɪn/ /dɪˈteɪn/
he / she / it detains	/dɪˈteɪnz/ /dɪˈteɪnz/
past simple detained	/dɪˈteɪnd/ /dɪˈteɪnd/
past participle detained	/dɪˈteɪnd/ /dɪˈteɪnd/
-ing form detaining	/dɪˈteɪnɪŋ/ /dɪˈteɪnɪŋ/

detain somebody to keep somebody in an official place, such as a police station, a prison or a hospital, and prevent them from leaving拘留；扣押
- One man has been detained for questioning.一个男人被拘留审问。
Wordfinder
- arrest
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- He has been detained without trial for nearly two years now.他未经审判就被拘押，到现在已将近两年。
- He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
- Over 60 people have been detained in connection with the coup attempt.60 多人因牵涉这起未遂政变而被拘留。
- Prisoners cannot be detained indefinitely without charge.不能无限期羁押囚犯而不提出控告。
- She was arrested and detained for distributing pro-democracy leaflets.她因为散发支持民主的传单而被拘留了。
- The law allows police to detain suspects for questioning for up to 48 hours.法律允许警方拘留嫌疑人进行长达48小时的讯问。
- Two people were detained in hospital following the crash.撞车事故发生后，两人被留院治疗。
- Two men have been detained in custody.两名男子已被拘留。
Topics Law and justicec1, Crime and punishmentc1
Collocations Dictionary
adverb
- briefly
- indefinitely
- illegally
- …
verb + detain
- need not
preposition
- for
- in connection with
phrases
- be detained in custody
- be detained in hospital
- detain somebody without charge
- …
detain somebody (formal) to delay somebody or prevent them from going somewhere耽搁；留住；阻留
- I'm sorry—he'll be late; he's been detained at a meeting.对不起，他要晚点儿到，他因会议耽搁了。
- The minister was unavoidably detained in Lisbon on affairs of state.部长因国家事务不可避免地被拘留在里斯本。
see also detention

词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘be afflicted with sickness or infirmity’): from Old French detenir, from a variant of Latin detinere, from de- ‘away, aside’ + tenere ‘to hold’.