embargo

英 [em'bɑːgəʊ; ɪm-] 美 [ɪm'bɑrɡo]
  • vt. 禁止出入港口;禁止或限制贸易;征用或扣押
  • n. 禁令;禁止;封港令
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embargo 贸易禁运令

em-, 进入,使。bar, 阻止。-g, 来自形容词后缀-ic.

embargo
embargo: [16] Something that has been embargoed has been literally ‘placed behind bars’ (compare EMBARRASS). The word comes from Vulgar Latin *imbarricāre, which was formed from the Latin prefix in- ‘in’ and Vulgar Latin *barra (source of English bar). This passed into Spanish as embargar ‘impede, restrain’, and its derived noun embargo was borrowed into English.
=> bar, barrier
embargo (n.)
"order forbidding ships from certain other nations from entering or leaving a nation's ports," 1590s, from Spanish embargo "seizure, arrest; embargo," noun of action from embargar "restrain, impede, arrest, embargo," from Vulgar Latin *imbarricare, from assimilated form of in- "into, upon" (see in- (2)) + *barra (see bar (n.1)). As a verb, from 1640s. Related: Embargoed.
1. Britain was signalling its readiness to have the embargo lifted.
英国表示愿意取消贸易禁令。

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2. The ship was impounded under the terms of the UN trade embargo.
该船因触犯联合国贸易禁运条款而被扣押。

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3. The embargo won't hurt us because we're used to going without.
禁运不会对我们有妨害,因为我们已经习惯了没有供应的日子。

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4. The embargo would only hurt innocent civilians.
禁运只会殃及无辜的百姓。

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5. an arms embargo
武器禁运

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