appropriating

英 [əˈprəʊprieɪtɪŋ]

美 [əˈproʊprieɪtɪŋ]

v.  盗用; 挪用; 占用; 侵吞; 拨(专款等)
appropriate的现在分词

柯林斯词典

The adjective is pronounced /ə'prəʊpriət/. The verb is pronounced /ə'prəʊprieɪt/. 形容词读作/ə'prəʊpriət/，动词读作/ə'prəʊprieɪt/。


• ADJ-GRADED 适当的;合适的;恰当的
  Something that isappropriateis suitable or acceptable for a particular situation.
  1. It is appropriate that Irish names dominate the list...
     名单上大部分是爱尔兰名字，这没什么不合适的。
  2. Dress neatly and attractively in an outfit appropriate to the job...
     着装要整洁美观，适合于这份工作。
  3. The teacher can then take appropriate action.
     老师到时可以采取适当的行动。
• VERB 私占；侵吞；盗用；挪用
  If someoneappropriatessomething which does not belong to them, they take it, usually without the right to do so.
  1. Several other newspapers have appropriated the idea...
     另外有几家报社已盗用了这个创意。
  2. The land was simply appropriated by the rulers.
     土地完全被统治者霸占。
• VERB 拨出（专款）
  If a government or organizationappropriatesan amount of money for a particular purpose, it reserves it for that purpose.
  1. Senator Lugar is skeptical that Congress will appropriate more funding for this purpose.
     参议员卢格怀疑国会是否会拨出更多资金用于此目的。

双语例句

• Appropriating public funds is a crime.
  挪用公款是犯罪行为。
• Why does the US turn a blind eye to the facts that certain countries opened a number of oil and gas blocks, and issued domestic laws illegally appropriating Chinese islands and waters? Mr Qin said.
  美国为什么对有的国家在南海划出大批油气区块、出台将中国的岛礁和海域划为己有的国内立法视而不见，秦刚表示。
• The legislature put teeth into the traffic law by increasing the penalties and appropriating money for its proper enforcement.
  议会以提高罚款及拨出执法所需要的专款，使交通法得以正常实施。
• Financiers rarely attract similar approval because – sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly – they are suspected of appropriating wealth created by others rather than engaging in genuine wealth creation.
  金融家很少得到类似的认可，因为人们怀疑他们窃取了他人创造的财富，而不是参与了真正的财富创造&这种怀疑有时候是正确的，有时候却并非如此。
• Whereas, the fact, which can prove the transformation of the subjective purpose from that in appropriating public funds for personal use to that in corrupting the public money, is not the objective result in occupying the public funds illegally, but the illegal behavior and course.
  能够证明挪用公款主观目的向贪污公款主观目的转化的事实，不是非法占有公款的客观结果，而是非法占有公款的行为和过程。
• The interpretation of the legislation about appropriating public money "for personal use" expresses the spirit to equally treat publicly owned enterprises and privately owned enterprises.
  挪用公款“归个人使用”的立法解释，体现了对公有制和私有制企业平等对待的精神；
• You can become wealthy by creating wealth or by appropriating wealth created by other people.
  你可以通过创造财富或掠夺他人创造的财富而致富。
• There is powerful acting; there are clever plot twists; and there is Mikhalkov himself as the jury foreman, appropriating the film's subtlest dialogue zinger.
  片中有极具张力的表演；有巧妙的情节设计；扮演陪审团主席的米哈尔科夫，恰如其分地演绎了电影中最为敏锐的反驳者。
• The treasurer was arrested for appropriating company funds.
  该出纳由于挪用公司资金而被捕。
• I consider that the social noble estate in the late of the New Stone Age strengthened their power though appropriating the religion function of the jade wares and the source themselves, hi the same course, they quicken the process of the transition on social power.
  笔者认为：通过对玉器宗教功能和资源的占有垄断，新石器时代晚期的社会权贵阶层进一步控制、巩固了他们手中的权力，加快了社会权力变迁的过程；