n. 走私；走私貨；戰(zhàn)時(shí)禁運(yùn)品（等于contraband of war）
adj. 禁運(yùn)的；非法買(mǎi)賣(mài)的
GRE暢通詞匯
中文詞源
contraband 禁運(yùn)品
contra-, 相對(duì)，相反。-ban, 命令，禁令。拼寫(xiě)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 ‘a(chǎn)gainst’ (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(yǔ)例句
1. The ship was found not to be carrying any contraband.
并未發(fā)現(xiàn)這艘船上載有任何違禁物品。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. The customs officers rummaged the ship suspected to have contraband goods.
海關(guān)人員仔細(xì)搜查了一艘有走私嫌疑的海輪.
來(lái)自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
3. You don't have any contraband from Shanghai, do you?
里面沒(méi)有上海帶來(lái)的私貨罷?
來(lái)自漢英文學(xué) - 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(lái)自漢英文學(xué) - 圍城
5. Most of the city markets were flooded with contraband goods.