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

• Extension of these efforts could one day pay off in the design of new proteins that help fight disease, sequester carbon, or clean up the environment.
  这一努力的延续最终能成功地设计新蛋白质对抗疾病，截存碳和清理环境。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。