detain
美[dɪ'teɪn] 英[dɪ'teɪn]
vt. 扣留;拘押;耽搁;延误
详细释义
v.(动词)- 扣留,扣押,拘留,禁闭,拘押
- 留住,阻住,喊住,不让走,阻留,阻止
- 使耽搁
- 缠住,缠着...不放
- 拖,耽误,耽搁
- 逗留
- 抑制,制止
双解释义
v.(动词)- vt. 使延迟; 耽搁 keep waiting; keep back; delay; retard; prevent from leaving or going forward
- vt. 拘留 confine
- vt. 查明,查出 discover the existence or presence of sb/sth, the identity of guilty of wrongdoing
英英释义
Verb- deprive of freedom; take into confinement
- stop or halt;
"Please stay the bloodshed!"
- cause to be slowed down or delayed;
"Traffic was delayed by the bad weather" "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform"
组词搭配
~+名词- detain the soldier扣押那士兵
~+副词- detain sb long耽搁某人很长时间
- detain accidentally偶尔耽搁
- detain honorably光荣地查明
- detain successfully成功地查出
- detain unhappily不高兴地延迟
~+介词- detain sb as hostage扣押某人做人质
- detain at a police station扣留在警察局里
- detain by business因公滞留
- detain sb for sth因…而拘留某人
- detain in quarantine留在港口进行检疫
例句
用作及物动词(vt.)- You cannot detain the eagle in the forest.你没有法子将一只老鹰扣留在森林里。
- We shall have to detain him and question him.我们只好把他扣起来,讯问他一下。
- Allow me to detain you for a moment.请允许我耽搁你一会儿。
- This matter isn't very important, and shouldn't detain us very long.这事不很重要,不该耽搁我们很久。
- I was detained by an unexpected caller that morning.那天早晨我被一个突然的来访者缠住了。
词语用法
v.(动词)detain的基本意思是“使延迟”“使延误”,可用于出发、到达,也可用于某种想法的出现,也可表示由于各种理由而被滞留某地; 还可表示依法抓住并关押或监护起来。 detain是及物动词,接名词或代词作宾语,偶尔也可接以动词不定式充当补足语的复合宾语。可用于被动结构。