be under house arrest

基本解釋

A court in Sicily has ruled that a suspected Mafia clan member weighing 210 kg can be put under house arrest because he is too fat for any Italian jail, local newspaper said Wednesday.
意大利西西里島一家法院近日做出裁決，允許一名黑手黨罪犯在家中服刑，因?yàn)樗w重達(dá)210公斤，給獄警帶來許多麻煩，如找不到足夠大的床供他睡覺，他龐大的身軀通不過浴室門等，意大利所有監(jiān)獄都無法容納他的肥胖之軀。
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He certainly knew how to play Canada’sjudicial system, lodging umpteen appeals, while living under a luxury versionof house arrest in Vancouver that was said to be saving taxpayers’ money.
他當(dāng)然知道如何發(fā)揮加拿大的司法系統(tǒng)，悠閑的面對(duì)無數(shù)上訴，而根據(jù)在溫哥華的家豪華版逮捕活被說成是為了節(jié)省納稅人的金錢。
His lawyers said that he is too old and frail to pose a flight-risk or to threaten potential witnesses, and asked that he be placed under house arrest until his trial begins, probably next year.
他的律師說，英薩利年老體弱，不會(huì)構(gòu)成逃跑的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)，也不會(huì)威脅可能的目擊者。他們要求法庭在審理之前，對(duì)他實(shí)行軟禁。

President Barack Obama called last week for Megrahi to be put under house arrest.

Secondly, we expressed our concern about the release, and believe that the Libyans should treat the individual as somebody who should be under house arrest.
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In Naples last November the show was so popular that a man who was supposed to be under house arrest was caught waiting in the queue.
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The group also fingered Mr Ntaganda's old boss, a dynamic former rebel leader, Laurent Nkunda, who is supposed to be under house arrest in Rwanda's capital, Kigali, as part of the 2009 peace deal.
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