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词汇 appropriated
释义 appropriated
past simple and past participle ofappropriate
appropriate
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /əˈprəʊ.pri.eɪt/ us /əˈproʊ.pri.eɪt/

appropriateverb[T] (TAKE)


to take something for your own use, usually without permission: 挪用;占用;盗用;侵吞
He lost his job when he was found to have appropriated some of the company's money.他被发现侵吞公司钱款后就丢了工作。
disapproving
to take something from a culture and use it as part of your own:
As the empire expanded, they eagerly appropriated the artistic styles of neigbouring provinces.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stealing
abscond
abscond with someone/something
aggravated burglary
anti-burglar
anti-burglary
eavesdrop
hot-wire
housebreaking
jemmy
jimmy
job
kleptomania
piratically
plunder
poach
poaching
porch piracy
rustle
rustling
snaffle

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Taking things away from someone or somewhere

appropriateverb[T] (KEEP MONEY)


to keep an amount of money to use for a particular purpose: 拨出(款项)
The government have appropriated millions of pounds for the project.政府已经为该项目拨款数百万英镑。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Keeping and storing things
appropriate
aside
bank
bogart
capacitance
capture
cling
dump
keep (something/someone) back
kept
lay
lay something aside
lay something down
lay something in
stash
stockpile
stockpiling
storage
store
trap

Examples of appropriated


appropriated

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


But it can scarcely be employed by the lawyer for the reason that it has been already appropriated by the philosopher.
This impression, nonetheless, obscures the extent to which the inhabitants of the area have appropriated the underlying concepts of the scheme.
It is possible that part of it was appropriated by guards or other officials.
In other cases, older villages and neighborhoods were appropriated to make way for this influx of refugees.
These images, even if mere studio constructions, were interpreted and appropriated by the teen audience for whom they were intended.
Some terms may have originally been appropriated from a wider domain but now only be used by couriers.
It could be appropriated according to local circumstances and social relations.
The state figures primarily as a honey-pot of resources to be absorbed, appropriated, and shared by politicians and appointees.
Instead, they appropriated these images and redefined them.
From this perspective the biblical passages are appropriated and musically framed to express the human psychology of loss, grief, commemoration and consolation.
This discrepancy, induced by an appropriated formula for the collision frequency, should lead to some consequences on the laser absorption.
Therefore, the struggle against impunity also takes place on a symbolic level at which key symbols are appropriated, interpreted and incorporated into political discourse.
He appropriated for himself the entire timber industry and took personal charge of the accounts of the forest resource establishment.
Meanwhile, 'disinterested' can be appropriated to the context of boredom, which is a much more common phenomenon.
The left side corner of the dance floor has been appropriated by a group of four friends dancing in couples.
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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