impoundvt. (lit.) put in a pound,or an enclosure (thecattle found straying on a highroad);pen up; impris-on（原意）把（走失在大路上的牲口）关进围栏；圈起来；关押。
△H.V.1.2.159: “She hath herself not only welldefended / But taken and impounded as a stray / TheKing of Scots；”(King David II of Scotland was cap-tured by the English army in 1346 while Edward III ofEngland was fighting in France.)但她不仅好好保卫住自己，而且还抓获了苏格兰王，把他像一头流窜的牲口似的关了起来。 impound[imˈpaund]n.扣押，没收，蓄水，拦住
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