detention
noun /dɪˈtenʃn/
/dɪˈtenʃn/
- [uncountable] the state of being kept in a place, especially a prison, and prevented from leaving
拘留；扣押；监禁 - They were sentenced to 12 months' detention in a young offender institution.
他们被判留在少管所12 个月。 - police powers of arrest and detention
警方的逮捕和拘留权 - allegations of torture and detention without trial
拷打和未经审判便进行关押的指控 - a detention camp
拘留营
Topics Crime and punishmentc1- He made the confession while under detention.
他在拘留期间招供了。 - He was held in detention from 1991 to 2001.
他从 1991 年到 2001 年一直被监禁。 - If found guilty of smuggling drugs, she could face indefinite detention.
如果走私毒品罪名成立，她将面临无限期监禁。 - Lawyers argued that she should be allowed to serve her detention in her home country.
律师们提出她应被允许在祖国接受监禁。 - Opponents of the regime had been subject to arbitrary detention, torture and execution.
政权的反对者遭任意拘留、拷打及处死。 - Prisoners have the right to challenge their detentions.
在押人员有权对拘留提出异议。 - She spent 18 years in detention.
她被拘禁了 18 年。 - Suspects were placed in preventive detention.
嫌疑人被实施预防性拘留。 - The judge will fix the period of detention.
法官将决定拘禁期。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- arbitrary
- pretrial
- indefinite
- …
- be in
- remain in
- hold somebody in
- …
- camp
- centre/center
- facility
- …
- in detention
- under detention
- a period of detention
- a term of detention
- They were sentenced to 12 months' detention in a young offender institution.
- [uncountable, countable] the punishment of being kept at school for a time after other students have gone home
放学后留校，留堂（处罚学生） - They can’t give me (a) detention for this.
他们不能因为这事罚我课后留下来。
Topics Educationc1- Any student caught smoking would be given detention immediately.
任何学生如被发现吸烟将会立即受到课后留校的处罚。 - My first day of school, and I have detention.
我第一天上学就受到课后留校的处罚。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- arbitrary
- pretrial
- indefinite
- …
- be in
- remain in
- hold somebody in
- …
- camp
- centre/center
- facility
- …
- in detention
- under detention
- a period of detention
- a term of detention
see also detain - They can’t give me (a) detention for this.
词源late Middle English (in the sense ‘withholding of what is claimed or due’): from late Latin detentio(n-), from Latin detinere ‘hold back’, from de- ‘away, aside’ + tenere ‘to hold’.