embargo

vt. 禁止出入港口；禁止或限制贸易；征用或扣押

n. 禁令；禁止；封港令

中文词源

embargo 贸易禁运令

em-, 进入，使。bar, 阻止。-g, 来自形容词后缀-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.: 英国表示愿意取消贸易禁令。

2. The ship was impounded under the terms of the UN trade embargo.: 该船因触犯联合国贸易禁运条款而被扣押。

3. The embargo won't hurt us because we're used to going without.: 禁运不会对我们有妨害，因为我们已经习惯了没有供应的日子。