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，刚果图西族军阀洛朗•恩孔达（2009年在卢旺达受到家庭监禁）派遣全国保卫人民大会（CNDP）的军队进驻沙沙村。
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.
这一句as she has been for much of the past two decades,指的是Aung San Suu Kyi在过于二十年的时间里有大多数时间都在house arrest。后面的这个term 我看了一下下文认为是她这一次的软禁期是到。。。。
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.
尽管有国会的豁免，他依然被监禁在家不能出席国会，等待着因第三次被指控受贿的审判，而这项指控他早已洗清。

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.
当弥尔顿遇见他是，伽利略已经又老又瞎，而这点对后来的弥尔顿至关重要，伽利略当时被软禁在他菲索尔的家中。
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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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