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小词详解 | confiscate
confiscate 英 [ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt] 美 [ˈkɑːnfɪskeɪt]
The emperor and his officials sometimes confiscated inventions and prevented their spread.
皇帝和官员们有时会将发明创造没收充公,严禁传播普及。
——《经济学人》There was no hint that the older man who called a couple of years back about selling a picture could be sitting on an unimaginable trove of art confiscated or banned by the Nazis.
几年前那个老人打电话来说有一幅画要卖时,没人能想象他手中掌握着的是一个难以置信的宝藏,全是被纳粹没收或查封的艺术品。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] (尤指作为惩罚)没收,把…充公
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
列宁宣称,摧毁资本主义最好的方法是摧毁其通货。通过一个持续的通货膨胀过程,政府可以秘密而隐蔽地把国民的大部分财富收为国有。
impound: (of the police, courts of law, etc.) to take sth away from sb, so that they cannot use it forfeit: lose or be deprived of (property or a right or privilege) as a penalty for wrongdoing expropriate: (formal or law) (of a government or an authority) to officially take away private property from its owner for public use
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