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基本解釋

This is one reason why socialists have long campaigned for such empty housing to be seized by councils and used to reduce the council housing waiting list.
這就是為什么社會(huì)學(xué)家一直長期為了讓參議會(huì)將這些空房子查封用來縮減地方簡易住宅的等候批準(zhǔn)的申請人名單而四處奔走的原因。
The country’s smaller regional and community banks include some 800 troubled institutions at risk of being seized by regulators if their capital ratios fall.
該國800個(gè)飽受困擾機(jī)構(gòu)，包括較小規(guī)模的地區(qū)的和社區(qū)銀行，受著如果它們的資本率下降將會(huì)被監(jiān)控者查封的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。
Yet nobody complained in April 2007 when Turkey brokered the release of 15 British Royal Navy sailors who had been seized by Iran.
但是沒有人2007年四月抱怨，當(dāng)時(shí)土耳其作為中間人促成了被伊朗抓獲的15名英國皇家海軍水手的釋放。

He says he is a pirate on board the cargo ship al-Mizan, which was seized by pirates.
Well, maybe I've been seized by an evil genius of some kind or maybe I'm just crazy."
可能我被某種惡魔控制了,也可能是我瘋了“
耶魯公開課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
Now of course, the presbyters had seized control in the first place because they disapproved of the tactics of suppression and intervention that had been deployed by the bishops, or the prelates, of the old church.
當(dāng)然，現(xiàn)在長老首先掌握了控制權(quán),因?yàn)樗麄儗εf教會(huì)主教和教士的,鎮(zhèn)壓和干預(yù)策略非常反對。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

This can be a reality if these opportunities are seized by American business right now.
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