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 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。
• Everything he owned was sequestered.
  他的所有财产都被扣押了。
• 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。
• The reason for this is that trees affect the world's temperature by means other than the carbon they sequester.
  之所以这样说，是因为树木并不是通过吸收二氧化碳来影响气温的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；