Contraband
['kɒntrəbænd] or ['kɑntrə'bænd]
解释:
(noun.) goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law.
校对:马蒂--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Illegal or prohibited traffic.
(n.) Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
(n.) A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
(a.) Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
(v. t.) To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
(v. t.) To declare prohibited; to forbid.
手打:米格尔
同义词及近义词:
a. Prohibited, illegal, unlawful, illicit.
n. [1]. Illegal traffic.[2]. Prohibited articles.[3]. [U. S.] Negro slave.
黛比手打
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Illicit, interdicted, smuggled
ANT:Licit, uninterstated, free
编辑:曼纽尔
解释:
adj. contrary to law: prohibited.—n. illegal traffic: prohibition: prohibited goods.—ns. Con′trabandism trafficking in contraband goods; Con′trabandist a smuggler.—Contraband of war a name applied to certain commodities as military stores and even coal in an age of war steamers not to be supplied by neutral to belligerent powers.
整理:泰丝
例句:
- Its principal object was to prevent the search of the colony ships, which carried on a contraband trade with the Spanish Main. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Now Mr. Davis had declared limes a contraband article, and solemnly vowed to publicly ferrule the first person who was found breaking the law. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Being seated, he takes from his satchel a book--not the Latin grammar, but a contraband volume of fairy tales. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- To do this work with contrabands, or to have it done, organization under a competent chief was necessary. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
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