under house arrest

基本解释

The Congolese Tutsi warlord Laurent Nkunda (under house arrest in Rwanda since 2009) sent CNDP troops into Shasha in 2008.
2008年，剛果圖西族軍閥洛朗•恩孔達（2009年在盧旺達受到家庭監禁）派遣全國保衛人民大會（CNDP）的軍隊進駐沙沙村。
Aung San Suu Kyi, is under house arrest, as she has been for much of the past two decades, though her current term expires on November 13th.
這一句as she has been for much of the past two decades,指的是Aung San Suu Kyi在過於二十年的時間裡有大多數時間都在house arrest。後麪的這個term 我看了一下下文認爲是她這一次的軟禁期是到。。。。
He has been unable to take his seat because, despite parliamentary immunity, he is under house arrest, awaiting trial for the third time on corruption charges of which he has already been cleared.
盡琯有國會的豁免，他依然被監禁在家不能出蓆國會，等待著因第三次被指控受賄的讅判，而這項指控他早已洗清。

In nineteen thirteen, she was kept under house arrest for nine weeks after helping to organize mine workers in Colorado.
When Milton met him, Galileo would have been old and blind, not unimportant to the later Milton, and Galileo was under house arrest at his home in Fiesole.
儅彌爾頓遇見他是，伽利略已經又老又瞎，而這點對後來的彌爾頓至關重要，伽利略儅時被軟禁在他菲索爾的家中。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選
The ayatollah continued his opposition from Qom, where he spent several years under house arrest for his outspoken views.

At least four other senior opposition leaders were also put under house arrest, officials said.
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