detention

英 [dɪ'tenʃn] 美 [dɪ'tenʃn]

• n. 滞留；拘留

英英释义

Noun:

1. a state of being confined (usually for a short time);

   "his detention was politically motivated"
   "the prisoner is on hold"
   "he is in the custody of police"
   

2. a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home;

   "the detention of tardy pupils"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The detention of the whole class was unfair.
   滞留全班学生是不公平的。
2. He was detained in that house of detention.
   他在那个拘留所里被拘留了。
3. We are placing your son in criminal detention.
   我们对你儿子实行刑事拘留。
4. They were put into detention camps for the duration.
   他们被关在拘留营里直至战争结束。

经典引文

• The detention of long-since-due debts.

  出自：Timon of Athens , Shakespeare

词汇搭配

• detention home 少年教养院,青少年教...
• detention center (青少年罪犯)感化中...
• detention centre 感化中心; 拘留中心...
• preventive detention 防范性拘留
• detention basin 拦洪水库,蓄洪水库,...
• surface detention 地面滞流,地表滞流,...
• detention camp 隔离营
• subsurface detention 地下滞留
• detention hospital 拘留病院
• detention barracks 军中拘留所
• detention reservoir 拦洪水库
• detention time 滞留时间
• detention dam 蓄洪坝
• detention tank (污水)滞留(沉淀)...
• detention storage 滞洪蓄水
• initial detention 地面蓄水,初始滞流...
• detention house (移民)临时扣留所...
• customs detention 海关扣留
• detention charge 逾期滞延费,滞留费...
• detention period 滞留期,停留期...

近反义词

【近义词】

• constraint 约束
• custody 拘留
• imprisonment 【U】监禁
• confinement 拘禁
• arrest 逮捕
• incarceration 下狱
• detainment 挽留
• hold 拿着