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　

TOEFLGRE化学

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.
  1. Everything he owned was sequestered.
     他的所有财产都被扣押了。
• VERB 使隔离;使与他人隔绝
  If someoneis sequesteredsomewhere, they are isolated from other people.
  1. 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。

英英释义

verb

• set apart from others
  1. The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on
  Synonym:sequestratekeep apartset apartisolate
• keep away from others
  1. He sequestered himself in his study to write a book
  Synonym:secludesequestratewithdraw
• undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
  1. The cations were sequestered
• take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
  1. The FBI seized the drugs
  2. The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment
  3. The police confiscated the stolen artwork
  Synonym:impoundattachconfiscateseize
• requisition forcibly, as of enemy property
  1. the estate was sequestered

双语例句

• The lesion usually developed in the middle and lower part of the joint and manifested itself as blurred articular surface, bone destruction, sequester, widened joint space, cold abscess and sinus.
  骶髂关节结核常单侧发病，多位于关节中下部，关节面模糊，骨质破坏及死骨形成，关节间隙增宽，常伴冷脓肿和窦道形成；
• 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。”
• 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。
• This should be on top of any global value derived from, for example, keeping forests pristine to sequester carbon and mitigate climate change.
  这项研究应该超越诸如保存森林用于固碳和缓解气候变化等价值。
• 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。
• Along the cool sequester'd vale of life;
  沿着那与世隔绝的人生谷地。
• 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。
• The United States Department of education dose not { accredited} schools, but the law requires the { sequester} education to publish a list of private accrediting agencies { recognize} as dependable.
  美国教育部不授权学校，但是法律规定，教育部部长公布一个公认的可靠的私人授权代理处。
• 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
• I was told I was not a threat to anyone. I was told there was no need to sequester me.
  我被告知我已经没有传染性，将不会对任何人构成威胁，也不需要隔离了。