- [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
Extra ExamplesTopics Crime and punishmentc1He 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。
Oxford 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
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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。
Extra ExamplesTopics Educationc1Any 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。
Oxford 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
Word Originlate 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’.