detentions

英 [dɪˈtɛnʃənz]

美 [dɪˈtɛnʃənz]

n.  拘留; 扣押; 监禁; 放学后留校，留堂(处罚学生)
detention的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT (尤指出于政治原因的)拘留，扣押，监禁
  Detentionis when someone is arrested or put into prison, especially for political reasons.
  1. ...the detention without trial of government critics...
     对政府批评者未经审讯的关押
  2. They have been held in detention since the end of June...
     他们从6月底以来就一直受到监禁。
  3. The government says the detentions are necessary on national security grounds.
     政府称，出于国家安全的考虑，将这些人羁押是必要的。
• N-VAR (惩罚顽皮学童的)放学后留校
  Detentionis a punishment for naughty schoolchildren, who are made to stay at school after the other children have gone home.
  1. The teacher kept the boys in detention after school.
     老师将这些男生课后留堂。

双语例句

• The world's biggest iron ore groups have begun fresh talks to set an annual benchmark price for 2010-11, and the continued detentions are widely expected to complicate the talks with the Chinese.
  全球最大几家铁矿石集团已经开始新一轮谈判，以制定2010-11年度的基准价格。人们普遍预计，胡士泰继续被监禁会使矿业集团与中国的谈判变得复杂。
• The governor of Quintana Roo denied that his state was being taken over by drug traffickers following the arrest and earlier detentions of other senior officials.
  逮捕行动过后，金塔纳罗奥州州长拒绝该州以被毒品走私团伙占领。此前，该州也有其他一些高级官员被拘留。
• However, the string of detentions since August 20 suggest the authorities have decided on a harder line.
  不过，自8月20日以来的一连串拘留，显示官方决定采取更为强硬的对策。
• I can't imagine them even talking to each other at the moment, said Paul Bartholomew of Steel Business Briefing, the steel consultancy in Shanghai, noting that the two sides had broken off contact during the negotiations even before the detentions.
  上海咨询公司环球钢讯（SBB）分析师保罗巴塞洛缪（PaulBartholomew）表示：我甚至无法想象他们此刻会相互交谈。他指出，在拘留事件之前，双方在谈判中就已中断了接触。
• Teachers may assign detention tasks as they wish and some detentions have been actually dangerous.
  老师可能随心所欲指派关禁闭的形式，有些禁闭事实上很危险。
• She's had four detentions this term.
  她这学期已有四次被关晚学。
• The document just states that illegal detentions and the extortion of confessions through torture are forbidden.
  这份文件只是声明，禁止非法拘禁和刑讯逼供。
• We turned on our television to hear about the day's spate of bans and detentions.
  我们打开了电视机，听到那天一连串的关于禁令和拘留的报道。
• According to Hong Kong media reports, the investigation has led to the detentions of senior government officials in the southern Guangdong Province, where Mr Huang was born and raised.
  据香港媒体报道，对黄光裕的调查，导致了广东省黄光裕出生和长大的地方的数名政府高官受到拘查。
• The widespread violation of basic political rights such as detentions without trial and torture of detainees is not recognized as a problem outright.
  对基本政治权利的普遍侵犯，如未经审判就羁押，以及对在押人员施以刑罚，本身未被承认是一个问题。