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

• Global warming could cause plants in northern regions to lose carbon to the atmosphere rather than sequester it, according to a new international study.
  一项国际研究表明，全球变暖有可能让北半球的植物向大气中释放更多的碳而不是储存它们。
• 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。
• 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 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；
• 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。
• Some countries that are poorer than this but which have policies to promote tree growth also showed an overall increase in their capacity to sequester carbon dioxide.
  有些国家没那么富裕但有政策提倡植树隔离二氧化碳的能力也呈现整体上涨的趋势。
• 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。”
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。