impounded

英 [ɪmˈpaʊndɪd]

美 [ɪmˈpaʊndɪd]

v.  暂时没收; 扣押; 收留(待领的狗、猫等)
impound的过去分词和过去式

过去式：impounded　

BNC.45469 / COCA.40899

柯林斯词典

• VERB 扣押;没收
  If somethingis impoundedby policemen, customs officers or other officials, they officially take possession of it because a law or rule has been broken.
  1. The ship was impounded under the terms of the UN trade embargo...
     该船因触犯联合国贸易禁运条款而被扣押。
  2. The police moved in, arrested him and impounded the cocaine.
     警察冲进去将他拘捕并没收了可卡因。

双语例句

• That big chunk's about to be impounded, hayden.
  这一大块要暂时扣押了，海登。
• Since this legal purchase, more than 11 tonnes of illegal African ivory have been impounded en route to China.
  在这次合法交易之后，已有逾11吨非法的非洲象牙在运往中国的途中被扣留。
• IT IS not unusual for charterers of ships to fail to pay their owners, and for the owners to have the vessels and their cargoes impounded.
  租船人拖欠船东租船费用，船东就扣押船只和货物的情其实是屡见不鲜。
• Security police had come to our house and impounded all our belongings.
  安全局警察曾经来我们家没收了我们所有的财物。
• Catalina saw our car had been impounded.
  catalina看到我的车被扣押了。
• The southern government has just begun to fight back; it recently impounded two oil-company helicopters that were carrying out unauthorised seismic tests.
  南方政府正在开始回击；最近将两部石油公司的直升飞机没收充公，原因是进行未授权的地震测试。
• Some of those who are impounded go on hunger strike on and off.
  一些被扣押的人断续地进行绝食。
• The agency impounded film belonging to news organizations.
  宇航局没收了新闻单位的胶卷。
• They immediately impounded the aircraft and hauled the pilot into an interrogation room.
  他们立即扣留了飞机并把飞行员押到了审讯室。
• The government as a whole will now come under intense pressure to explain why a vast consignment of explosives from a ship impounded en route to Syria from Iran has been left untouched for two years.
  政府将面临巨大压力来解释为什么从伊朗运往叙利亚的船只上没收的炸药两年来都无人问津。