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

• So he came to the internment camp.
  于是他来到俘虏收容所。
• Forty years ago, as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, she was first told by a Japanese-American professor about the family internment camp at Crystal City, in southwestern Texas.
  40年前，拉塞尔在得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校读本科时，第一次听一位日裔美国教授讲起得克萨斯州西南部克里斯特尔城的家庭俘虏收容所。
• I have almost completed my internment here on the island.
  我几乎完成了我的扣留这里在海岛。
• "The IRA was declared illegal in 1931, and the Irish legislature provided for internment without trial for its members."
  1931年爱尔兰共和军被宣布为非法，爱尔兰的议会通过不需经过审判就可拘留其成员
• Two years ago, Congress formally apologized for the internment
  两年前，国会就此拘留事件正式道歉。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。