confiscate: [16] Confiscate’s etymological connotations are financial: the Latin verb confīscāre meant ‘appropriate to the public treasury’. It was formed from the collective prefix com- and fiscus. This meant originally ‘rush-basket’; it was applied to the baskets used by tax collectors, and hence came to mean ‘public treasury’ (English gets fiscal from it). The looser sense of confiscate, ‘seize by authority’, dates from the early 19th century. => fiscal
confiscate (v.)
1550s, originally, "to appropriate for the treasury," from Latin confiscatus, past participle of confiscare, from com- "together" (see com-) + fiscus "public treasury," literally "money basket" (see fiscal). Related: Confiscated; confiscating.
双语例句
1. There is concern that police use the law to confiscate assets from people who have committed minor offences.
有人担心警方利用该法罚没犯下轻罪的人的财产。
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2. Make maximum use of legislation to confiscate the proceeds of drug trafficking.
善用现行法律以充公贩毒得益.
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3. The police have the right to confiscate any forbidden objects they find.
如发现违禁货物,警方有权查扣.
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4. No entity or individual shall confiscate or detain any motor vehicle plate.
任何单位和个人不得收缴、扣留机动车号牌.
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5. A: Will you give me your camera? We have to confiscate your film.