| 单词 | protective custody |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprotective custody protective custody n. the detention of a person either allegedly or truly for his or her own protection. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > [noun] > for protection safe custody1536 protective custody1929 1929 Chicago Tribune 18 Oct. 1/1 Secluded..in the protective custody of private detectives prior to his surrender to the state's attorney's office. 1936 Sun (Baltimore) 17 Feb. 8/3 He is declared to have been placed under protective custody. Now this phrase is a deliberate steal from the vocabulary of Nazi Germany, its purpose being to cast a pall of dignity around the proceeding when Brown Shirts take an opponent into a Brown House for the purpose of beating him with a rubber hose. 1940 C. V. Wedgwood William the Silent vii. 192 He was even forced to take monks and priests into protective custody—and it really was protective custody, though the catholics represented it as plain imprisonment. 1973 ‘D. Shannon’ No Holiday for Crime viii. 128 Pat's reformed pusher ready to tell all sitting safe in protective custody. 2004 R. Overy Dictators v. 189 By July 1933, there were, according to the Interior Ministry, 26,789 in protective custody; in effect this meant confinement in a concentration camp or prison without the right to a court hearing. < as lemmas |
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