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 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。
• Therefore, it is possible to sequester CO2 in this biogas field and produce methane at the same time.
  所以，在生物气田利用产甲烷菌进行CO2地质固定并且产生新的甲烷具有可能性。
• Add to that the potential loss of coastal property from rising sea levels, crop loss from drastic weather related incidents, and the need to reforest large swaths of land to sequester CO2.
  另外海平面上升可能造成的沿海家园毁灭，与极端天气相关的灾害也会带来的农作物损失，以及需要大片土地植树造林以固定二氧化碳。
• 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。
• Along the cool sequester'd vale of life;
  沿着那与世隔绝的人生谷地。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。”