英：[dɪs'treɪn]
美：[dɪ'streɪn]
distrain如何读
distrain是什么意思
- v.扣押；扣押财物
distrain自然拼读
dis·train
dih streIn
distrain变形
distrains, distraining, distrained
distrain英英释义
- v.
- levy a distress on
- confiscate by distress
- legally take something in place of a debt payment
distrain词源英文解释
Middle English distreynen, from Anglo-French destreindre, from Medieval Latin distringere, from Latin, to draw apart, detain, from dis- + stringere to bind tight — more at strain
The first known use of distrain was in the 14th century
distrain 例句
1 At last I lost patience, and determined to distrain.
2 They distrained upon his goods for rent.
他们扣押了他的货物抵偿租金。
3 I gave him a minute account of the ancient process of distraining and impounding and of the action of replevin,—considerably to my own amusement and his astonishment.”
4 "I meant to say that Iwan had become a hajdamak only because he had shot a tax-gatherer who was unlawfully going to distrain the goods of his mother, a poor widow."
5 The landlord can at any time distrain for his rent; what object, then, would he have in incurring expense, and encountering delay, to procure a decree, which, when obtained, would only restrict his former power?
6 We are distrained for the taxes, and yet we are not allowed to claim our own.
7 In the end, the agent got the repairs done himself, and distrained upon David's goods for the amount.
8 Her creditors had lost all patience, and were threatening to distrain on her property, and even to put her in prison.
9 Magna Carta laid down the law about “fish weirs” on English rivers, “assizes of darrein presentment,” people being “distrained to make bridges,” and other “liberties . . . to hold in our realm of England in perpetuity.”
10 The parish constable, under whose care Wildgoose was, said, that of his own certain knowledge he was able to confirm the truth of his statement as to his having no goods to distrain.
11 If any one refused or neglected to attend, he was punished by a fine, and by distraining his goods, unless he had a just excuse.
12 If he cannot raise the money his home is distrained on, or there is the option of imprisonment.
13 Thus, for the bankruptcy of Nabû-aplu-iddin,3 they show that the creditors distrained upon the bankrupt's property and found a buyer for most of it in a great Neriglissar, afterwards King of Babylon.
14 I won't ask a rack rent, I promise you, and I suppose I could distrain on these tea things and the kettle if it were not paid up.
15 All such as ought to be Knights and are not, shall be distrained to undertake the weapons of Knighthood.
16 When the mayor ordered the sheriffs to distrain they refused on the plea that it was the mayor's business, not theirs.
17 You know, surely, that to attempt to distrain for rent on some of these gentlemen would assuredly bring a bullet through your brain or mine.
18 Andrea did this because the sergeant had upon one occasion distrained his goods.
19 The owner asked the court for an order to distrain upon the furniture of the young man who failed to pay his rent.
房主可以要求法院下令，扣押所有不付租金的人的家具。
20 He can only distrain after the rent becomes due.