sequester
英 [sɪˈkwestə(r)]
美 [sɪˈkwestər]
v. 隔离(避免陪审团与公众接触)
过去分词：sequestered 过去式：sequestered 现在分词：sequestering 第三人称单数：sequesters
BNC.34239 / COCA.17824
牛津词典
verb
verb
- 隔离（避免陪审团与公众接触）
to keep a jury together in a place, in order to prevent them from talking to other people about a court case, or learning about it in the newspapers, on television, etc.
柯林斯词典
- VERB 同 sequestrate
Sequestermeans the same assequestrate.- Everything he owned was sequestered.
他的所有财产都被扣押了。
- Everything he owned was sequestered.
- VERB 使隔离;使与他人隔绝
If someoneis sequesteredsomewhere, they are isolated from other people.- This jury is expected to be sequestered for at least two months.
预计这个陪审团将至少被隔离两个月。
- This jury is expected to be sequestered for at least two months.
英英释义
verb
- set apart from others
- The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on
- keep away from others
- He sequestered himself in his study to write a book
- undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
- The cations were sequestered
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- The FBI seized the drugs
- The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment
- The police confiscated the stolen artwork
- requisition forcibly, as of enemy property
- the estate was sequestered
双语例句
- Sequester yourself on a private beach with pristine sand, shimmering waters and lush, green mountains rising in the background.
置身于与世隔绝的私人海滩，沙软潮平，青山环绕，波光粼粼。 - LEON PANETTA: "If the sequester goes into effect and it doubles the number of cuts, then it will truly devastate our national defense."
LEONPANETTA：“如果封存生效，削减数额翻倍。那么它将真正摧毁我们的国防。” - Though both parties would like to replace the sequester with more gradual, selective deficit cuts, they cannot agree on how to do so.
尽管两党都希望用更具渐进性和选择性的削减赤字的方式取代自动开支削减，但就如何实现这种转变仍未达成一致。 - The Potential to Sequester Atmospheric Carbon Through Forest Ecosystems in China
中国森林生态系统中植物固定大气碳的潜力 - CO2-emitting industries could pay farmers to buy stoves to char and sequester farm waste.
会排放二氧化碳的工厂要为农民购买生产碳的炉子，还要清除农业废弃物。 - In addition to SOC, there is also a huge potential to sequester soil inorganic carbon ( SIC) in arid and semi-arid regions.
土壤除了固定有机碳外，干旱和半干旱地区土壤还具有固定无机碳的巨大潜力。 - The sequester, remember, was a doomsday device created to resolve the debt-ceiling crisis in 2011, on the assumption that sequestration was so stupid and damaging that people would do anything to keep it at bay.
要知道，自动减支的前提是假设人们愿意不惜一切避免这一愚蠢且破坏性的方案，是为了解决2011年债务上限而设立的“末日”工具。 - For people wanting to sequester cash offshore, Macau patacas can easily be sent into foreign bank accounts.
对于那些想将现金藏在境外的人来说，澳门元能轻而易举地发往外国银行户头。 - We will invent much improved methods to harness the sun, the wind, nuclear power, and capture and sequester the carbon dioxide emitted from our power plants.
我们将大量投资有效利用太阳能、风能、核能的新方法，大量投资能够捕获和隔离电厂废气中的二氧化碳的方法。 - Extension of these efforts could one day pay off in the design of new proteins that help fight disease, sequester carbon, or clean up the environment.
这一努力的延续最终能成功地设计新蛋白质对抗疾病，截存碳和清理环境。