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

em-, 進入，使。bar, 阻止。-g, 來自形容詞后綴-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.

英國表示愿意取消貿易禁令。

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

該船因觸犯聯合國貿易禁運條款而被扣押。

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

禁運不會對我們有妨害，因為我們已經習慣了沒有供應的日子。

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4. The embargo would only hurt innocent civilians.

禁運只會殃及無辜的百姓。

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5. an arms embargo

武器禁運

來自《權威詞典》