| 词汇 | appropriating |
| 释义 | appropriating present 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. 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 You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: 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。 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 appropriatingappropriating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Appropriating the colonizers' claims to bring ' progress ', migrants attempted to achieve status and influence in the villages from which they had migrated. She is controversial for challenging the male literary tradition and appropriating the ghazal, a lyrical poetic style used by men to express love. Are we appropriating materials hitherto neglected for analysis of the kind we have always used? But people were not willing to accept this: the possibility (for and by the state) of appropriating organs wounds them deeply. The achievement of actually appropriating poor law hospitals and institutions in such a large urban area should likewise not be underestimated. Likewise, they built chapels within their palaces, thereby appropriating a personal sacred space to replace that lost to the canons in the cathedral. Just as balloonists had models to follow in presenting their work to a paying audience, so too did the audience have experience in appropriating science. How do we avoid appropriating other people's anguish when we use it to make theatre? Yates hurried to claim that she had not meant to interfere with the work of historians of science by appropriating a scientist within her domain. Why have historians been so cautious in embracing, appropriating and participating in the project to integrate the history of music into the history of culture? We can call this (again appropriating a term from political philosophy, again purging it of all negative connotations) the anarchist position. It was a means of appropriating the past in order to legitimize the colonized present. By appropriating this capital, one holds the status of conqueror and civilizer. This may take the form of users appropriating some inscribed elements of an e-government system to their own purposes. In artistic contexts this can involve literal quotation, the more complex process of appropriating an earlier style or both simultaneously. 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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