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  1. The police blundered badly by arresting the wrong man.
    警方抓错了人,犯了荒唐的大错。
  2. Charles was charged with speeding but was acquitted because of a loophole in the law witch states that the arresting officer should have been in uniform.
    查尔斯被指控超速行驶,但后来又被宣布无罪,因为他钻了法律的空子,法律明文规定:执行任务的警察应该穿上警服。
  3. The senior civil servant they arrested for spying turned out to be a Trojan horse, planted by enemy intelligence twenty years previously.
    他们逮捕的那位因进行间谍活动的高级文职人员,原来是20年前敌人情报机构安插的特洛伊木马。


arresting
[ adj ]
commanding attention
<adj.all>
an arresting drawing of people turning into animalsa sensational concert--one never to be forgotten
a stunning performance


Arrest \Ar*rest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Arrested}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Arresting}.] [OE. aresten, OF. arester, F. arr[^e]ter,
fr. LL. arrestare; L. ad + restare to remain, stop; re +
stare to stand. See {Rest} remainder.]
1. To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as,
to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.

Nor could her virtues the relentless hand
Of Death arrest. --Philips.

2. (Law) To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law;
as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.

Note: After this word Shakespeare uses of (``I arrest thee of
high treason'') or on; the modern usage is for.

3. To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the
eyes or attention. --Buckminster.

4. To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate. [Obs.]

We may arrest our thoughts upon the divine mercies.
--Jer. Taylor.

Syn: To obstruct; delay; detain; check; hinder; stop;
apprehend; seize; lay hold of.


Arresting \Ar*rest"ing\ ([a^]r*r[e^]st"[i^]ng), a.
Striking; attracting attention; impressive.

This most solemn and arresting occurrence. --J. H.
Newman.

  1. Police stormed a car today in which a woman held her 15-month-old son hostage at knife-point for over 13 hours, rescuing the boy and arresting his mother, officials said.
  2. Israel radio said the army made mass roundups of Palestinians as soon as the territories were closed, arresting 600.
  3. But Herb Condray, Mrs. Sims' brother-in-law, said police are only trying to save face by arresting her.
  4. Israeli journalists and the Foreign Press Association in Israel protested last week after two policemen in east Jerusalem were spotted with a press sign in the window of their unmarked car and were later seen arresting Palestinians.
  5. Police moved in on a crowd of more than 500 people demonstrating today against U.S. military presence in Central America, arresting an estimated 225 protesters who tried to block the entrance to the Federal Building.
  6. "They're all the time arresting what they call the leadership, but they haven't gotten the leaders," she said.
  7. Rex Robles meanwhile denied involvement in the November 1986 murder of leftist labor leader Rolando Olalia and refused to accompany arresting officers because they carried only a photocopy of de Villa's arrest order, Robles' lawyer told reporters.
  8. Interspersed among the objects are some of Lang's arresting archival photographs of the Mangbetu, which help put a human face on the exhibit.
  9. In Des Moines, Iowa, the Border Patrol raided the Swift Independent Packing Co., arresting 17 Mexicans on charges of falsifying their visas and Social Security cards.
  10. "This ad demonstrates a new tool for creative people to deliver powerful messages in an arresting way," said Bill Edwards, who supervised the project for the Dallas office of the McCann-Erickson advertising agency.
  11. Still, Chinese authorities have been successful at crushing several other smaller "railroads," run by Hong Kong-based activists and students, arresting several Chinese student leaders and people helping them escape.
  12. To form a quorum, Mr. Byrd is arresting resisting Republicans.
  13. The FBI trailed one its 10 most wanted fugitives from Boston to Mexico before arresting him there for the 1987 slaying of a policeman.
  14. But like her good friend Billie Holiday, McRae's sound phrasing and time are so arresting that the lyrics take on connotations that the writer never had in mind. Also, there is the powerful undertow of Monk's music.
  15. Police searched homes of suspected neo-Nazis in 61 West German cities Wednesday, confiscating Nazi flags and arresting four people, officers said.
  16. You seem to feel it's OK for government to enforce a "sense of community" by arresting people who make phonograph records or who protest against the government by attacking its symbol (the flag).
  17. The killing was widely blamed on the Lohamei Herut Yisrael group, and the Israeli government launched a nation-wide hunt for its members, arresting 400 people, among them Yellin-Mor.
  18. GUY LAROCHE, French fashion designer whose sophisticated styles were renowned for their quality, beautiful fabrics and arresting colors.
  19. Police reported arresting about 260 people, half of them area residents, and hundreds of summonses were issued through Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
  20. What is to prevent that country from arresting and imprisoning the spouse of an official who delivers a diplomatic rebuke?
  21. It stopped arresting people under them, and in the past two years has released hundreds of people arrested under them.
  22. Police swept through Rome, Catania and other Italian cities before dawn Saturday, arresting 21 people suspected of involvement in a Mafia-run drug, extortion and loan-sharking operation, officers said.
  23. She made headlines last year by arresting a member of Parliament for violating curfew laws.
  24. Very arresting, but not wholly persuasive.
  25. Also Monday, police and troops swept into a hotel in the capital, arresting opposition leaders and journalists.
  26. Salinas has cracked down hard, arresting top traffickers and corrupt officials who had been untouchable for years.
  27. As he was being taken to jail, Edwards warned that he had cast a spell on the arresting deputy sheriff and on the judge who would hear his case.
  28. "We finally have a leg up on arresting the natural progression of the disease and producing patients who are alive at five years, which has been a rarity," said Dr. Martin M. Oken of the University of Minnesota.
  29. The move came after a British diplomat was detained and beaten in apparent reprisal for British police arresting an Iranian envoy on shoplifting charges.
  30. The letter, from North Korean delegation head Chon Gum Chol, charged South Korea delayed talks further by arresting a South Korean dissident clergyman, the Rev. Moon Ik-hwan, when he returned in April from a visit to Pyongyang.
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