【appropriation】 - SAT备考词汇

appropriation

UK:  [ə.prəʊpri'eɪʃ(ə)n]

US:  [ə.proʊpri'eɪʃ(ə)n]

复数：appropriations  

n.

1.专款;拨款

2.据为己有;拨款

3.专用

4.私用;挪用,擅用,盗用

5.经费

6.津贴

7.剽窃

8.拔给

9.充当,充用

10.【宗教】圣俸的转让;转让的圣俸;拨款;拨款的立法行动

1 . The bank had the right to appropriation in the case of unclaimed deposits.
银行有权使用无人领取的存款。

2 . Due to the indiscreet appropriation for capital construction, the company was running out of working capital.
由于基建拨款不成熟，公司的营运资金日渐匮乏。

3 . It seems that this was not really theft at all, but a re-appropriation of found material, a "remix" if you will.
好像这根本不是偷盗，只是对已发现材料的重新占有，如果愿意你也可以称它为“重新混音”。

4 . When the word protection was used, it did not mean protection by the appropriation of something in the public domain.
这里所使用的“保护”一词并不等于通过占用公有领域中的某些东西来进行保护。

5 . This was a genuinely big "beat, " for it took up five times as much ground and got ten times as great a legislative appropriation as the .
这是一个真正巨大的“采访领域”，因为上述畜牧部门占地面积是文学院的五倍，所获得的立法机关的拨款是文学院的十倍。