英语词汇“preventive detention”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	preventive detention
释义	preventive detention From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Jail & punishmentpreventive detentionpreˌventive deˈtention noun [uncountable] British English lawSCJ a system in which people who are guilty of many crimes are kept in prison for a long timeExamples from the Corpuspreventive detention• Her order of preventive detention caused consternation among lawyers over a possible breach of civil liberties.• Apart from the clearly implied step toward preventive detention, it was almost impossible not to detect an underlying racism.
随便看	somebody was never meant for something/to be something somebody will be laughing on the other side of their face somebody will be the death of me somebody will live to regret it somebody will murder you somebody will never hear the last of something somebody will never know/no one will ever know somebody will not be doing something (again) in a hurry somebody will not go near somebody/something somebody will not rest until ... somebody will/would/should etc go far somebody won’t thank you (for doing something) somebody would (just) as soon somebody would do well to do something somebody would give the world to do something somebody would give their eye teeth for something somebody would give their right arm to do something somebody would sooner do something (than) somebody would turn in their grave somebody wouldn’t hurt/harm a fly somebody wrote the book on something somebody's abilities as something somebody's hearing deteriorates somebody's nearest competitor somebody's ultimate destination

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