be under house arrestto be kept as a prisoner by a government, stayinginside your house rather than in a prison 被软禁(在家)
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be under house arrest• He, he was under house arrest.• The editor of the party newspaperis under house arrest for printing a report about tanks being moved out of Tirana.• We are not in darkest prison like our brothers and sisters in the flesh, but we are under house arrest.
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house arrest• He also underwent several periods of defacto house arrest and trial for treason between 1956 and 1961.• He had spent his last years under effectivehouse arrest at his home in Kufa.• Tried in Hanoi on charges of sedition, he died under house arrest in Hue fifteen years later.• He died under house arrest in Salamanca, uncompromising to the end.• Jaruzelski put him under house arrest for his efforts.• The constitution was suspended and the Cabinet placed under house arrest.• After he voluntarily returned home in 1985, Kim was placed under house arrest again.