detain

英 [dɪ'teɪn] 美 [dɪ'teɪn]

• vt. 扣留；拘押；耽搁；延误

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. 使延迟; 耽搁

   keep waiting; keep back; delay; retard; prevent from leaving or going forward

2. vt. 拘留

   confine

3. vt. 查明,查出

   discover the existence or presence of sb/sth, the identity of guilty of wrongdoing

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. <罕>拘留，滞留

v. 动词

1. 扣留，扣押，拘留，禁闭，拘押
2. 留住，阻住，喊住，不让走，阻留，阻止
3. 使耽搁
4. 缠住，缠着...不放
5. 拖，耽误，耽搁
6. 逗留
7. 抑制，制止

英英释义

Verb:

1. deprive of freedom; take into confinement

2. stop or halt;

   "Please stay the bloodshed!"
   

3. 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"
   

例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. You cannot detain the eagle in the forest.
   你没有法子将一只老鹰扣留在森林里。
2. We shall have to detain him and question him.
   我们只好把他扣起来，讯问他一下。
3. Allow me to detain you for a moment.
   请允许我耽搁你一会儿。
4. 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。
5. 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。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. The accident detained us for an hour.
   那次意外事故使我们耽搁了一小时。
2. The bad weather detained us for several hours.
   恶劣的天气耽搁了我们几个小时。
3. This matter isn't very important, and shouldn't detain us very long.
   这件事情不很重要,不会耽搁我们太久。
4. As some urgent business detained him, he had to send his secretary on to the meeting.
   由于有急事缠身,他只得先派秘书去参加会议。
5. The police detained the suspect.
   警察拘留了嫌疑犯。
6. We shall be obliged to detain you here while we continue the investigation.
   在继续进行调查期间我们不得不把你扣留在这儿。
7. They have detained two men for questioning at the police station.
   他们将两个人扣留在警察局进行审讯。
8. The police detected a young woman in a dishonest act and detained her.
   警察发现那位年轻妇女在做不正当的事就把她拘留了。
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9. I was detained late in the factory.
   厂里有事我无法脱身,很晚才离开。
10. I was detained by a friend who called.
    我因一个朋友来访而受耽搁。
11. He told his wife that he had been detained in the office by unexpected callers.
    他告诉他的妻子他因不速之客来访而耽搁在办公室里。
12. He was detained by a flat tire on his way home.
    他在回家途中因车胎漏气而受到耽搁。
13. The boy was detained at school to extra work.
    这孩子课后被留在学校做额外作业。
14. The vessel is detained in quarantine.
    该船被留在港口进行检疫。

用作宾补动词

S+～+ n./pron. +to- v

1. The teacher often detains the lazy pupils at school to do their homework.
   老师常把懒惰的学生留在学校完成他们的作业。

S+～+ n./pron. +as n.

1. Three men were detained as suspects.
   有三个人被当作嫌疑犯拘留。
2. He was captured and detained as hostage in the castle.
   他被俘并扣押在城堡里做人质。

经典引文

• They would be conducted to London by the escort, and detained there for questioning.

  出自： R. Macaulay

• About twenty thousand people are compulsorily detained in psychiatric and special hospitals.

  出自： Anthony Smith

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+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

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. 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。
2. 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。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

detain, apprehend, arrest, attach

• 这组词都有依法逮捕、拘押、监禁的意思,其区别是：
• arrest可用于刑事案件,也可用于民事案件,如债务等; 而apprehend只用于刑事案件; attach常指因逃脱而扣押或查封,用于人时也只指将其拘留到法庭出庭作证; detain则是为了询问或审查而拘留或监护,不是严格的法律术语。

detain, delay, retard, slacken, slow

• 这组词都可表示“使某人〔事〕落后于”原计划的安排或通常的进展速度。它们之间的区别是:delay主要指因某事的干扰而妨碍按时完成或到达; detain主要指耽误时间,不能按时到达或离开,也可指不能完成想完成的事情; retard主要指减慢运动、进步速度; slow常与up或down连用,指降低进步的速度,强调主观的意图和目的性; slacken侧重某种松弛〔懈〕。例如:
• I was detained late in the factory.厂里有事我无法脱身,很晚才离开。
• Cold weather retards the growth of the crops.寒冷的天气妨碍作物的生长。
• His bad leg slows him down a lot.他那条受伤的腿使他的速度大受影响。
• Don't slacken your efforts when the job is only half done.工作只做到一半时可别松劲。

detain, keep

• 这组词都有“留住,耽搁”的意思。其区别在于:
• 1.detain尤指警察进行“拘留”,一般指“留住,耽搁”时,常含有强迫之意; keep多用于口语中。
• 2.detain比keep语气重,且更正式。

近反义词

【近义词】

• delay 耽搁
• hold up 举起
• slow up 使慢下来(减速...
• restrain 抑制
• hold 拿着
• confine 限制
• retard 妨碍
• keep 保持
• keep back 隐瞒
• impede 妨碍
• hinder 阻碍
• arrest 逮捕
• keep in custody 拘留
• capture 捕获
• control 掌控
• stay 停留
• apprehend 理解
• up 向上
• slow 慢的

【反义词】

• free 自由的
• liberate 解放