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***。

双语例句

• China has impounded two shipments of food from the US on the grounds that the produce is unsafe and warned that procedures for monitoring American food imports should be tightened.
  中国以产品不安全为由扣留了两批来自美国的食品，并警告要加强对美国输华食品的检验检疫程序。
• 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。
• I couldn't just let this beauty get impounded.
  我只是不想让这靓车被扣押。
• 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。
• Some questions need to be answered: How much water was impounded, where and when?
  还需要回答一些问题：何时何地汇集起来的水有多少？
• Their passports continued to be impounded and their bans maintained.
  他们的护照继续被扣押，对他们的禁令仍然维持。
• She said the NTC leaders promised to give the case early consideration but she did not link it to the return of impounded Libyan funds.
  她说，全国过渡委员会领导人保证将较早地考虑这个案子，不过她并没有把这个问题与交还被冻结的资产挂钩。
• 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。