英文单字日进025 confiscate

confiscate /ˌkɑnfəˈskeɪt/

v.没收；充公

The customs official confiscated the drugs and called the police.

海关人员没收了毒品，并且报警。

助记:

字首con-「一起；共同」+字根fisc「财政」+ 动词字尾-ate 联想 将某物变为共同财产，便是「充公」之意

其他同字根单字：

fiscal 财政的；国库的

衍 confiscation n.没收；充公；征收

confiscatory adj.没收的

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At a Pacific coast base, Second Mate Juan Carlos Noguera shows me around some of the subs that have been confiscated.  Fiberglass on a wooden frame, twin diesel engines, the price tag, around $1million. Most of that's not for materials,but to buy the silence of the boat builders.

在太平洋海岸基地，二副胡安·卡洛斯· 诺格拉带我看看一些被查扣的潜艇。木框上有玻璃纤维、双柴油引擎，定价大约是一百万美元。那些钱大部分并非用来购买材料，而是用来堵住造船者的嘴。

英英解析:

confiscate /ˌkɑnfəˈskeɪt/

Other forms: confiscated; confiscating; confiscates

To confiscate means to take away temporarily for security or legal reasons. It implies an act by an authority upon one of less power. If you use your cell phone in class, the teacher might confiscate it for the day.

Confiscate derives from the Latin confiscat, meaning "to store in a chest, or give to the treasury." In school, if the boys begin throwing pencils at each other, the teacher will confiscate them and "store” them in her desk. She’ll return them, however, when the boys need to take the test. That’s assuming they have not blinded each other beforehand.

Definitions of confiscate

v. take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority

“The police confiscated the stolen artwork”

synonyms: attach, impound, seize, sequester

adj. surrendered as a penalty

synonyms: forfeit, forfeited (vocabulary.com)