汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 羈留
羈留 (羁留)
to stay / to detain
〈动〉❶(在外地)停留。❷羁押。
() jī liú
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

剧务使我羁留上海。

Theatre affairs kept me in Shanghai.

一个人羁留尘世的生涯结束了。

Thus ended one man's sojourn in this world.

当时少年曾由于那起交通事故被暂时羁留

The teenager had been detained after the traffic incident.

几个苍蝇咬几口,决不能羁留一匹英勇的奔马。——伏尔泰。

A few flies bite a few mouth, must not hold a heroic horse gallop.

第二项计划包括在警署每个羁留室安装一个内部通话器及警钟系统,连接至当值人员办公桌旁的一个控制台。

The second includes installation of an intercom and buzzer system in every police cell , linked to a console beside the duty officer ' s desk.

就连罗伯特·弗罗斯特那最为人所知,最美国化的定义——“家就是那个当你不得不前往时,他们必须接纳你的所在”——也带有其潜台词,家不是羁留之所。

Even Robert Frost's most familiar and most American definition — "home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in" — has another subtext, home is not where you stay.