• vt. 禁止出入港口；禁止或限制貿(mào)易；征用或扣押
• n. 禁令；禁止；封港令

em-, 進(jìn)入，使。bar, 阻止。-g, 來(lái)自形容詞后綴-ic.

embargo

embargo: [16] Something that has been embargoed has been literally ‘placed behind bars’ (compare EMBARRASS). The word comes from Vulgar Latin *imbarricāre, which was formed from the Latin prefix in- ‘in’ and Vulgar Latin *barra (source of English bar). This passed into Spanish as embargar ‘impede, restrain’, and its derived noun embargo was borrowed into English.
=> bar, barrier

embargo (n.)

"order forbidding ships from certain other nations from entering or leaving a nation's ports," 1590s, from Spanish embargo "seizure, arrest; embargo," noun of action from embargar "restrain, impede, arrest, embargo," from Vulgar Latin *imbarricare, from assimilated form of in- "into, upon" (see in- (2)) + *barra (see bar (n.1)). As a verb, from 1640s. Related: Embargoed.

1. Britain was signalling its readiness to have the embargo lifted.

英國(guó)表示愿意取消貿(mào)易禁令。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. The ship was impounded under the terms of the UN trade embargo.

該船因觸犯聯(lián)合國(guó)貿(mào)易禁運(yùn)條款而被扣押。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

3. The embargo won't hurt us because we're used to going without.

禁運(yùn)不會(huì)對(duì)我們有妨害，因?yàn)槲覀円呀?jīng)習(xí)慣了沒(méi)有供應(yīng)的日子。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

4. The embargo would only hurt innocent civilians.

禁運(yùn)只會(huì)殃及無(wú)辜的百姓。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

5. an arms embargo

武器禁運(yùn)

來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》