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Contraband is goods brought into a country illegally, especially to avoid tax or because the law forbids them — smuggled cigarettes, hidden alcohol, banned weapons. People also use it more loosely for anything you are not allowed to have in a place: phones as contraband in an exam hall, sweets as contraband in a prison. It works as a noun (They seized the contraband) and as an adjective (contraband goods, a contraband phone). It is a news-and-law word more than a kitchen-table word; in everyday talk people say smuggled or illegal goods. The idea underneath is old and simple: against the ban.
違禁品、走私貨
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
contrabandnoun/ˈkɒn.tɹəˌbænd/
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Any goods which are illicit or illegal to possess.
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Goods which are prohibited from being traded, smuggled goods.
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historicalA black slave during the American Civil War who had escaped to, or been captured by, Union forces.
- While some Yanks treated contrabands with a degree of equity or benevolence, the more typical response was indifference, contempt, or cruelty.
contrabandadj/ˈkɒn.tɹəˌbænd/
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Prohibited from being traded.
- … when the seizure is made in connection with a violation involving a contraband article covered by section 1 (b) (1) of the said Act; …
- The exclusion of mandatory payment of moieties for seizures of contraband controlled substances is accomplished through Section 17 of the bill, …
contrabandverb/ˈkɒn.tɹəˌbænd/
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obsoleteTo import illegally; to smuggle.
- there are also searched for concealed Slaves, and goods contrabanded
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obsoleteTo declare prohibited; to forbid.
- The law severely contrabands / Our taking business off men's hands.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。