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

• 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。
• "When there are road accidents and serious injuries, the vehicles involved are always impounded."
  “当发生交通事故并有重大伤亡时，所有事故车辆都要被扣留。”
• The French impounded two Greenpeace ships off their coast.
  法国人在其近海扣押了两艘绿色和平组织的船。
• Me and my partner handled a lot of impounded shit.
  我和搭档经手很多没收的赃物。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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 agency impounded film belonging to news organizations.
  宇航局没收了新闻单位的胶卷。
• Catalina saw our car had been impounded.
  catalina看到我的车被扣押了。
• 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。