detaining
名词 C2中文： 拘留、扣留、耽搁
- A delay, hindrance, or impediment; the act of holding back. · The heavy rain was a detaining on their progress.
- The act by which someone is detained; detention. · The suspect’s detaining lasted several hours.
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But Gilbert had also sprung from the boat and now laid a detaining hand on her arm.
You will not thank me for detaining you from the bewitching converse of that young lady, whose bright eyes are also upbraiding me.”
Bennet had designed to keep the two Netherfield gentlemen to supper; but their carriage was, unluckily, ordered before any of the others, and she had no opportunity of detaining them.
“If I had had the honor of seeing you for the third or fourth time, count, instead of only for the second,” said Madame de Villefort; “if I had had the honor of being your friend, instead of only having the happiness of being under an obligation to you, I should insist on detaining you to dinner, and not allow myself to be daunted by a first refusal.”
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