| 单词 | house arrest |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse arrest house arrest n. detention in one's own house, rather than in a prison, etc.; frequently with under. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > house arrest home confinement1724 house arrest1810 chamber arrest1834 house detention1915 1810 Pict. Verdun I. 151 To avoid..the expence and the ennui of this house-arrest, the colonel was obliged to pay twelve livres to the gendarmes. 1853 Times 13 Sept. 9/2 The following punishments were inflicted:—..beaten with a stick, 48; house-arrest, 180. 1936 F. L. Schuman Hitler & Nazi Dictatorship Epilogue ii. 441 He was subjected to ‘house arrest’ for his protection. 1945 M. Allingham Coroner's Pidgin xv. 126 In the normal way when I put a person under house arrest and she breaks it, I pull her in. 1970 New Yorker 17 Oct. 179/1 The Chinese continue to support Prince Sihanouk, who is said to be living under house arrest in Peking. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 13 July a30/4 Britain's introduction of ‘control orders’..which allow for the imposition of conditions tantamount to house arrest on the basis of suspicion only. house arrest house arrest v. transitive (chiefly in passive) to subject to house arrest. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] > put under house-arrest house arrest1963 1963 Economist 31 Aug. 732/2 The Hodgsons, banned, house-arrested and persecuted in South Africa. 2000 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 11 June (Seven Days section) 5/2 I stopped being a journalist and became an activist, and eventually was house arrested. < as lemmas |
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