contraband
英 ['k?ntr?b?nd]
美['kɑntr?'b?nd]
- n. 走私；走私貨；戰時禁運品（等于contraband of war）
- adj. 禁運的；非法買賣的
GRE暢通詞匯
中文詞源
contraband 禁運品
contra-, 相對，相反。-ban, 命令，禁令。拼寫受band影響。
英文詞源
- contraband
- contraband: [16] Contraband means literally ‘proclamation against’ – hence ‘prohibition’. It comes via French contrebande from Italian contrabbando, a compound formed from contra ‘against’ (see CONTRARY) and bando ‘proclamation’ (whose source was late Latin bannus, bannum, a relative of English ban). The sense ‘dealing in prohibited goods’ had already developed before English acquired the word, and rapidly developed through ‘smuggling’ to ‘smuggled goods’.
=> ban, contrary - contraband (n.)
- 1520s, "smuggling;" 1590s, "smuggled goods;" from Middle French contrebande "a smuggling," from older Italian contrabando (modern contrabbando) "unlawful dealing," from Latin contra "against" (see contra) + Medieval Latin bannum, from Frankish *ban "a command" or some other Germanic source (see ban (v.)).
雙語例句
- 1. The ship was found not to be carrying any contraband.
- 并未發現這艘船上載有任何違禁物品。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The customs officers rummaged the ship suspected to have contraband goods.
- 海關人員仔細搜查了一艘有走私嫌疑的海輪.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 3. You don't have any contraband from Shanghai, do you?
- 里面沒有上海帶來的私貨罷?
來自漢英文學 - 圍城
- 4. I thought it was only people like Li Mei - t'ing who carried contraband!
- 我以為只有李梅亭這種人帶私貨!
來自漢英文學 - 圍城
- 5. Most of the city markets were flooded with contraband goods.
- 大多數的城市市場上都充斥著走私貨。
來自辭典例句