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detention home

/dih-ten-shuhn hohm/US // dɪˈtɛn ʃən ˌhoʊm //

拘留所,羁押所,拘押所,拘禁所

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : juvenile detention center.

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Examples

  • That officer fretting about his “stance,” we learn, is plagued by PTSD that cripples him both on the job and at home.

  • So, Islamized teaching sends girls back home for marriage and housework, and remains exclusively for boys.

  • Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.

  • The FBI raided his home in 2000 with an affidavit questioning his use of $200,000 from his white supremacist fundraising.

  • Scalise spoke briefly, adding little of substance, saying that the people back home know him best.

  • It was with a feeling of relief on both sides that the arrival of Mr. Haggard, of the Home Office, was announced.

  • In the entrance hall of the Savoy, where large and lonely porters were dozing, he learnt that she was at home.

  • I've never had time to write home about it, for I felt that it required a dissertation in itself to do it justice.

  • Now and then the boy who had bought Squinty, and who was taking him home, would look around at his pet in the slatted box.

  • "I suppose the man Alessandro has something he calls a home," said the Senora, regaining herself a little.