impoundment
impoundment — 名詞
1. the official taking and holding of someone's vehicle, property, or money by poli
扣押；查扣
公權力依法扣留財物或車輛
the official taking and holding of someone's vehicle, property, or money by police, customs, or another authority, usually as a result of a legal rule being broken or a court order.
Isabela challenged the impoundment of her car after the parking ticket was overturned.
罰單被撤銷後，Isabela 對車輛的扣押提出異議。
impoundment of + [vehicle] in a legal-dispute context
The judge ordered the impoundment of all documents found in the warehouse during the raid.
法官下令查扣搜查時在倉庫裡找到的所有文件。
ordered the impoundment of + [property]; legal-procedure collocation
Bilal paid a heavy fee to release his truck from impoundment at the city yard.
Bilal 付了一大筆費用，才把他的卡車從市府的扣押場領回。
release [vehicle] from impoundment; common police-yard scenario
Customs officers signed the paperwork for the impoundment of the smuggled antiques.
海關人員在走私古董的扣押文件上簽了名。
impoundment of + [seized goods]; customs context
The new law allows the impoundment of funds linked to fraud while the case is investigated.
新法律允許在案件調查期間，扣押與詐欺有關的資金。
impoundment of funds; financial-law collocation
- impoundment of property
- impoundment of funds
- release from impoundment
- vehicle impoundment
- impoundment lot
- seizure
broader; covers any official taking, not only vehicles or court-ordered holding
- confiscation
stresses permanent removal as a penalty, while impoundment often allows return after a fee or hearing
- release
the return of an impounded item to its owner
文法句型
impoundment of [property/vehicle/funds]
用法筆記
Subject of the action is usually an authority — police, customs, a court, or a government office. The thing taken is typically a vehicle, document, sum of money, or restricted item; rarely a person.
常見錯誤
2. a lake or pool of water that is held back by a dam, levee, or other built barrie
蓄水區
由水壩或堤防攔住形成的水域
a lake or pool of water that is held back by a dam, levee, or other built barrier — for example for hydropower, drinking-water supply, or flood control.
Imran took photos of the wide impoundment that stretched behind the new dam.
Imran 拍下了延伸在新水壩後方的廣闊蓄水區。
impoundment behind a dam; concrete water-engineering scene
Heavy rain raised the water level in the reservoir's main impoundment by nearly two metres.
豪雨使水庫主要蓄水區的水位上升了將近兩公尺。
water level in the impoundment; hydrology collocation
Engineers drained the small impoundment so they could repair cracks along the inner wall.
工程師排掉了那座小蓄水區的水，以便修補內壁上的裂縫。
drain the impoundment; maintenance context
Fish populations in the upper impoundment recovered after the factory stopped releasing waste.
在工廠停止排放廢水後，上游蓄水區的魚群數量逐漸恢復。
in the impoundment + ecological context
- water impoundment
- impoundment behind a dam
- drain the impoundment
- upper / lower impoundment
文法句型
a [size/type] impoundment
the impoundment behind/above [structure]
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1 by topic: this sense always describes water held by a barrier (dam, levee, weir), never a vehicle or property held by an authority. Common in engineering, hydrology, and environmental reports rather than everyday conversation.