confiscate
confiscate 英 [ˈkɒnfɪskeɪt] 美 [ˈkɑnfɪskeɪt]
vt. 没收；充公；查抄 adj. 被没收的
进行时:confiscating 过去式:confiscated 过去分词:confiscated 第三人称单数:confiscates
- 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.
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- vt. 没收；充公；查抄
- adj. 被没收的
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1. He confronted their leader and threatened to have the authorities confiscate their equipment.
他劈头盖脸就威胁那边的带头人，要让当局没收他们的器材。
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2. BEFORE 1997 they usually punished us by tearing down our houses for breaching the one-child policy…After 2000 they began to confiscate our children.
1997年前，他们通常拆掉我们的房子来惩罚我们违反独生子女政策……2000年后，他们开始‘没收’我们的孩子。
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3. For example, although the government has recently passed anti-trafficking laws, it has not reconciled past laws that allow, or even require, employers to confiscate migrant workers’ travel documents.
例如，尽管政府最近通过多项反人口贩运的法律，但它还没有调整过去那些允许、甚至要求雇主没收流动劳工旅行证件的法律。
- confiscate (v.) 1550s, "to appropriate for or adjudge to be forfeit to the treasury," in reference to the goods or estate of a traitor or criminal, from Latin confiscatus, past participle of confiscare, from assimilated form of com "with, together" (see con-) + fiscus "public treasury," originally "money basket, wicker basket" (see fiscal). Caxton (late 15c.) Englished French confisquer as confisk. The broader sense "take from another by or as if by authority" is attested by 1819. Related: Confiscated; confiscating.
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