| 词汇 | impounding |
| 释义 | impounding present 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 impoundingimpounding In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. These depictions, like all tropes, are analytically impounding. Secondly, there is the impounding reservoir; and then, thinly, there is the use of rivers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I understand that most of the water undertakers who are extracting and impounding water will be pumping on some 200 days. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is what they have spent in impounding water. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I said that it was not in the public interest to disclose the reasons for impounding the passport. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was interesting to hear the different agencies describe honestly some of the problems that they have with searching and impounding. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I shall say more about penalties later, but particular aspects of impounding are not the same as penalties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I can only assume that in his view there was an excess of communication between the impounding authorities and his motor car. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whispers have reached me that there may be some reluctance to proceed with the impounding of vehicles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I shall not follow their example in advocating the confiscation forever of the fly tippers' vehicles, but the impounding of vehicles is an important sanction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know that it is concerned about the cost of the impounding reservoirs which are to be constructed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Neither part of this area would, in fact, be the scene of spectacular works of impounding or regulating the rivers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I come now to the way in which existing rights of abstraction and impounding are treated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There should be no impounding until we can see how the problems that the barrage will create can be solved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Obviously, it is the licence to abstract water which must come first in order before impounding works are authorised. 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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