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英语单词 confiscate
英美音标 英 ['kɒnfɪskeɪt] 美 ['kɒnfɪsˌkeɪt]
中文释义 v.没收;充公
英语例句 (1) We'll have to confiscate this object.
(2) The present policy of our Party is still to reduce rents, not to confiscate land.
中文例句 (1) 我们要没收这些物品。
(2) 目前我党方针,仍然是减租而不是没收土地。
vocabulary简明 To confiscate means to take away temporarily for security or legal reasons. It implies an act by an authority upon one of less power. If you use your cell phone in class, the teacher might confiscate it for the day.
vocabulary扩展 Confiscate derives from the Latin confiscat, meaning "to store in a chest, or give to the treasury." In school, if the boys begin throwing pencils at each other, the teacher will confiscate them and "store” them in her desk. She’ll return them, however, when the boys need to take the test. That’s assuming they have not blinded each other beforehand.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词](通常作为惩罚)没收,把…充公 If you confiscate something from someone, you take it away from them, usually as a punishment.
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  • There is concern that police use the law to confiscate assets from people who have committed minor offences...

    有人担心警方利用该法罚没犯下轻罪的人的财产。

  • They confiscated weapons, ammunition and propaganda material.

    他们没收了武器、弹药和宣传材料。

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  • The new laws allow the confiscation of assets purchased with proceeds of the drugs trade.

    新的法律允许没收用毒品交易所获收益购置的资产。

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