请教OG第222题

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222. By a vote of 9 to 0, the Supreme Court awarded the Central Intelligence Agency broad discretionary powers enabling it to withhold from the public the identities of its sources of intelligence information.

请问to withhold from the public是什么意思？

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himba

个人认为是:拒绝提供的意思.withhold... from 此处的用法类似keep...from.
from the public 提前了.为了表达清晰.
withhold the identities of its sources of intelligence information from the public .