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Detention has two common meanings. At school, it's a punishment where a student has to stay after class as a consequence for bad behavior. In a more serious, legal sense, detention means being held by the police or government, often before or during a trial — like "under detention."
留校察看；拘留、羈押
組成From "detain" (to hold someone back) + "-ion."
同家族的字
- detainis the verb this word comes from
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Detentionname
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A locality in Circular Head Council, north western Tasmania, Australia.
detentionnoun/dɪˈtɛnʃn̩/
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The act of detaining or the state of being detained; hindrance.
- In the case of rail-borne traffic, permission is given to each sender to load and forward his traffic so that it will be available for loading into the vessel with a minimum of detention to wagons, unless arrangements have been made for the traffic to be put into store to await the arrival of the ship.
- "[…] On the 18th of October, 1841, a very intense magnetic disturbance was recorded, and amongst other curious facts mentioned is that of the detention of the 10:05pm express train at Exeter for 16 minutes, as from the magnetic disturbance affecting the needles so powerfully, it was impossible to ascertain if the line was clear at Starcross. The superintendent at Exeter reported the next morning that someone was playing tricks with the instruments, and would not let them work."
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lawA temporary state of custody or confinement.
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A temporary state of custody or confinement.
- be stuck in detention
- Now, for slacking off in class and for having a serious attitude problem, your punishment is two weeks in detention, with me, starting this afternoon.
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The bare physical control without the mental element of intention required for possession.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。