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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Everything he owned was sequestered.
  他的所有财产都被扣押了。
• 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
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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 United States has 100 to 160 conventional coal-fired plants on the drawing boards, all with life spans of about 40 years, and none equipped to capture and sequester CO2.
  美国在计划中的常规燃煤电厂有100到160座，服务期限都是40年，而且没有任何用以捕获和隔离二氧化碳的设备。