internment

英 [ɪnˈtɜːnmənt]

美 [ɪnˈtɜːrnmənt]

n.  (出于政治原因的)拘留，扣押

复数：internments　

法律

BNC.16963 / COCA.18781

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT (出于政治原因的)拘留，扣押
  Internmentis the practice of putting people in prison for political reasons.
  1. They called for the return of internment without trial for terrorists.
     他们呼吁对恐怖分子重新实施不经审讯即行拘留政策。
  2. ...internment camps for dissidents.
     持不同政见者的拘留营

英英释义

noun

• placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
  Synonym:impoundmentimpoundingpoundage
• the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
  Synonym:imprisonment
• confinement during wartime

双语例句

• Just when I was feeling particularly sorry for myself for being broke and lonely and caged up in Divorce Internment Camp, an editor from a women's magazine asked if she could pay to send me to Bali to write a story about Yoga vacations.
  正当我为自己的崩溃和寂寞自怜自艾、被关在离婚战俘营的时候，一位女性杂志编辑询问能否出钱派我去巴厘岛写一篇有关瑜伽假期的文章。
• In 1988, Congress apologized for the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and offered$ 20,000 payments to survivors.
  1988年，美国国会就二战期间设立日裔美国人拘留营一事正式道歉，并对幸存者每人赔偿2万美元。
• She noted that the United States government used census data to target Japanese-Americans for internment during World War II.
  她指出，美国政府在二战期间利用人口普查数据锁定他们将要拘禁的日裔美国人。
• They called for the return of internment without trial for terrorists.
  他们呼吁对恐怖分子重新实施不经审讯即行拘留政策。
• These men had been held in internment camps during the war.
  战争期间这些人被关押在拘留营里。
• Mr Sun reckons it will take months to repair the damage inflicted on his business by his six-month internment.
  孙估计要花几个月的时间才能恢复六个月的监禁所造成的损失。
• Though their internment may have been, in theory, the worst thing the children of Crystal City ever experienced, some of them formed lasting bonds.
  虽然理论上讲，克里斯特尔城的孩子们被拘留的生活是他们最糟糕的经历，但是其中一些人建立了长久的联系。
• Thousands are thought to have died in the final few days of fighting, and tens of thousands of Tamil civilians reached internment camps in desperate conditions.
  据称上千人死于最后几天的决战中，数万泰米尔平民入住条件艰苦的拘留营。
• Over time, disposal or internment in Death's Reach fell into disfavor.
  随著时间的推移，坠落的被放逐者被处置或拘留在死亡岬里。
• And live in government controlled internment camps.
  而居住在政府管辖的收容所里。