| 词汇 | impounded |
| 释义 | impounded past simple and past participle ofimpound impound verb[ T ] uk /ɪmˈpaʊnd/ us /ɪmˈpaʊnd/ If the police impound something that belongs to you, they take it away because you have broken the law: （警方或掌权者）扣押，没收 The police impounded cars and other personal property belonging to the drug dealers.警察没收了毒贩的汽车及其他个人财物。 The vehicle was impounded by customs.车辆被海关扣押了。 Compare confiscate Taking things away from someone or somewhere appropriate bear away carry someone away carry something off collect someone/something from somewhere debug divest someone of something drain (something) away drainage dredge expropriate relieve removal remove rob root something/someone out rout someone out seizure shear sweep Examples of impoundedimpounded In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. They have impounded this land, re-made it into their far-off recollected pasts. The influence of plant size, structure and impounded leaf litter on arthropod diversity is discussed. It may be that a penance of compulsory almsgiving was a way of keeping control of how impounded wealth was spent. These are indeed, canal irrigation systems, with the exception that here the canal water is impounded into above-surface tanks. The system has been 'dynamised' - time has been impounded. The main distinction between these habitats and water impounded by leaf axils is the presence of secreted plant fluids that digest organic material falling into the plant. Differences in bromeliad leaf turnover rate have implications for the time scale for the return of impounded nutrients to the forest floor and developmental time for invertebrates. The level of impounded water will be between the present high water level and the present low water level. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The coroner was advised that tape recordings of all telephone and radio conversations had been impounded and could be made available. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We now have sophisticated means of cleaning up water, particularly if it is impounded. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These, it appears, are going to be impounded. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, and in consequence of that, shipowners demand the faster turn-rounds at estuarial port facilities which do not rely on impounded docks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The total number of livestock impounded was about 3,500 cattle and about 6,000 sheep and goats. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 During the year 1942 forgeries impounded amounted to about one for every five million notes paid. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Very briefly, after the necessary double checks, the vehicle will be impounded. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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