Confiscate
['kɒnfɪskeɪt] or ['kɑnfɪsket]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
(v. t. ) To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.
巴纳德編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Cause to be forfeited, condemn to public use.
黛博拉編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Seize, escheat, dis, possess, sequestrate, distrain
ANT:Restore, release, refund
卡尔文校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to appropriate to the state as a penalty: to take possession of.—adj. forfeited to the public treasury.—adjs. Confis′cable Confis′catory of the nature of confiscation.—ns. Confiscā′tion the act of confiscating; Con′fiscātor one who confiscates.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The property of the rich was taxed or confiscated in order that it should be divided among the poor. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- If the stamp is of an inferior price to what the testator ought to have made use of, his succession is confiscated. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- If they catch us with the treasure aboard it will all be confiscated anyway. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Then they consulted a good while; and finally they confiscated it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He and his books were in frequent requisition as to property confiscated and made national. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The boat is confiscated. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- They, in a manner, confiscated the domains of the Church! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They do not call it confiscating the church property. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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