| 单词 | detention centre |
| 释义 | Related topics: Jail & punishmentdeˈtention ˌcentre British English, detention center American English noun [countable] SCJSEa place where people are kept and prevented from escaping, especially people who have entered the country illegally, or young people who have committed crimes 〔关押非法入境者的〕拘留中心；〔关押少年犯的〕感化中心，青少年管教所Examples from the Corpusdetention centre• So they put me in a detention centre for six months.• Read in studio A Government plan to turn a disused juvenile prison into a detention centre for immigrants has been strongly criticised.• It's planned to turn part of the site into a detention centre for the immigration service.• The judge gave Abraham a seven-year sentence in a juvenile detention centre, after which he will be released.• Read in studio Campaigners against a new detention centre for the immigration service have held a torchlight protest.• Read in studio A new detention centre for immigrants has taken delivery of its first inmates, despite protests from local people.• Then again you may be taken from the detention centre to Pentonville Prison and locked up there if you complain.• In this detention centre, contemptuous and inhuman attitudes have hardened into set rules.deˈtention ˌcentre nounChineseSyllable place where are people and Corpus a kept |
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