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。
• 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。
• So, it is necessary to strengthen the guilty research to appropriating public funds for personal use, in order to benefit and assert and punish this kind of crime correctly in the judicial practice.
  因此，有必要加强对挪用公款罪的研究，以利于在司法实践中正确认定和处罚此种犯罪。
• Group companies can perform flexible arrangement of funds among their subsidiaries by collecting from and appropriating into the accounts.
  集团总公司通过集团一级账户资金的上收和下拨，在其子公司之间进行资金的灵活调剂。
• This suggests strongly that other countries have by no means shared the US experience in the richest appropriating the bulk of rising prosperity.
  这有力地表明，其它国家决没有像美国那样，在经济不断繁荣的过程中，最富有群体独享了大块利益。
• Born Again Pagans are enthusiastic about Celtic designs and are successfully appropriating Christian symbols back to their supposed primal meaning.
  新涌现的异教徒热衷于凯尔特的图案，并且成功地还原了天主教符号本来的意义。
• 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 treasurer was arrested for appropriating company funds.
  该出纳由于挪用公司资金而被捕。
• 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。
• We could not sit there watching others appropriating our market and ruining our industry, he said.
  我们不能眼睁睁地看着别人侵入我们的市场，破坏我们的工业。