1·The teacher threatened to confiscate their phones if they kept using them in class.
老师警告说,如果他们上课时继续使用手机就予以没收。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·The law has been used to confiscate assets from people who have committed minor offences.
该法律已被用于没收那些犯了轻微过错的人的财产。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Much of the new plan focuses on boosting intelligence to investigate and prosecute key cartel members, and to confiscate their money.
美国的这一新计划主要着眼于增强情报工作,以调查和起诉贩毒集团头目,并没收他们的钱财。
4·It enables Swiss authorities to confiscate assets clearly of illicit origin even when the person holding them has not been convicted in criminal proceedings in the country seeking restitution.
这条法律可以使得瑞士当局甚至可以在资产持有人在他们的国家寻求归还资金的刑事诉讼中未被定罪的情况下,没收明确的非法来源的资产。
5·Such exclusion means that those who withhold salaries, confiscate passports, confine their employees to the house or otherwise abuse them, can literally get away with murder.
她们被排除在外,这等于说那些有薪水的人没收了她们的护照,将她们的雇员限制在屋子里,要不就是虐待她们,还可以摆脱谋杀的嫌疑。
1·This was recognised by John Maynard Keynes, who in the 1940s argued for a global clearing bank that would tax or even confiscate the excess earnings of surplus countries.
凯恩斯(John Maynard Keynes)在20世界40年代就意识到这一点,他提议建立一个全球性清帐银行,其目的是对顺差国家收取税额甚至把顺差充公。
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。