appropriates

英 [əˈprəʊprieɪts]

美 [əˈproʊprieɪts]

v.  盗用; 挪用; 占用; 侵吞; 拨(专款等)
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柯林斯词典

The adjective is pronounced /ə'prəʊpriət/. The verb is pronounced /ə'prəʊprieɪt/. 形容词读作/ə'prəʊpriət/，动词读作/ə'prəʊprieɪt/。


• ADJ-GRADED 适当的;合适的;恰当的
  Something that isappropriateis suitable or acceptable for a particular situation.
  1. It is appropriate that Irish names dominate the list...
     名单上大部分是爱尔兰名字，这没什么不合适的。
  2. Dress neatly and attractively in an outfit appropriate to the job...
     着装要整洁美观，适合于这份工作。
  3. The teacher can then take appropriate action.
     老师到时可以采取适当的行动。
• VERB 私占；侵吞；盗用；挪用
  If someoneappropriatessomething which does not belong to them, they take it, usually without the right to do so.
  1. Several other newspapers have appropriated the idea...
     另外有几家报社已盗用了这个创意。
  2. The land was simply appropriated by the rulers.
     土地完全被统治者霸占。
• VERB 拨出（专款）
  If a government or organizationappropriatesan amount of money for a particular purpose, it reserves it for that purpose.
  1. Senator Lugar is skeptical that Congress will appropriate more funding for this purpose.
     参议员卢格怀疑国会是否会拨出更多资金用于此目的。

双语例句

• Article 382 Any State functionary who, by taking advantage of his office, appropriates, steals, swindles public money or property or by other means illegally take it into his own possession shall be guilty of embezzlement.
  第三百八十二条国家工作人员利用职务上的便利，侵吞、窃取、骗取或者以其他手段非法占有公共财物的，是贪污罪。
• The President is Commander-in-Chief of the army, but Congress appropriates money for a standing army.
  总统是军队的统帅，但军费是由国会拨出的。
• This rental payment appropriates some of the consumer surplus.
  这种租金付款占有了一些消费剩余。
• Comparing with other optimization methods, it needs few mathematical requirements, so it appropriates to optimization design of supporting structures for foundation pit.
  与传统搜索方法相比，遗传算法对所求解的优化问题没有太多的数学要求，适用范围更广，适合于解决基坑支护优化设计问题。
• The military supplies work's efficiency highlights more and more, appropriates the funds with the higher authority to be more important.
  军需工作的经济性越来越凸显，用好上级拨付的经费更加重要。
• That selfish student always appropriates the biggest bookcase and desk.
  那个自私的学生总是占用最大的书橱和书桌。
• Mobile TV phone appropriates to meet this need.
  手机电视恰当的迎合了这一需要。
• When the fire is strong, it soon appropriates itself to the matter which is heaped upon it, and consumes it, and rises higher by means of this very material.
  当火势强旺，它很快就会挪用堆积的材料，吞食它，并靠着这材料使自己升得更高。
• He who appropriates collective goods will be punished by the law!
  私吞集体财产终究会得到法律的制裁！
• He often appropriates my ideas.
  他时常剽窃我的见解。