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）關(guān)進圍欄；圈起來；關(guān)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.)但她不僅好好保衛(wèi)住自己，而且還抓獲了蘇格蘭王，把他像一頭流竄的牲口似的關(guān)了起來。 impound[im?paund]n.扣押，沒收，蓄水，攔住
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