| 单词 | home confinement |
| 释义 | > as lemmashome confinement home confinement n. (a) confinement or imprisonment in one's own home or country; (now) spec. = house arrest n. at house n.1 and int. Compounds 10; (b) = home birth n. (b). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > house arrest home confinement1724 house arrest1810 chamber arrest1834 house detention1915 1724 in Milton's Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained Index sig. Ee A Citizen's taking the Air in the Country from his home Confinement. 1841 Q. Rev. June 108 We do not wish to dwell much on the enormous difference of expense between transportation and home confinement. 1867 Dublin Q. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 43 85 Another illustration of the caution with which those who can afford the cost of home confinement..should desire to be confined in hospitals. 1921 K. Kawabé Press & Politics in Japan viii. 66 The authorities became alarmed, and in 1876 changed the home confinement to penitentiary sentence. 1922 C. C. Van Blarcom Getting Ready to be Mother vi. 86 An equipment which will prove adequate to meet the ordinary requirements of a home confinement. 1995 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Nov. 1209/1 Freedom for women to choose a home confinement, pool birth, or elective caesarean section. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 Sept. a6/5 Mr. Chen's continued home confinement under guard, a practice known in China as ‘soft detention’, has no basis in Chinese law. < as lemmas |
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