foreclose
foreclose
verb
foreclosure
noun
语源
verb
- [no obj.]take possession of a mortgaged property as a result of someone's failure to keep up their mortgage payments
（因抵押人未能还贷）止赎
the bank was threatening to foreclose on his mortgage.
银行威胁要取消他的回赎抵押权。
■[with obj.]take away someone's power of redeeming (a mortgage) and take possession of the mortgaged property
取消回赎（抵押品）的权利 - [with obj.]rule out or prevent (a course of action)
排除，防止（行动）
the decision effectively foreclosed any possibility of his early rehabilitation.
决定有效排除了他早日恢复名誉的可能。
foreclosure
noun
语源
- Middle English: from Old French forclos, past participle of forclore, from for- 'out' (from Latin foras 'outside') + clore 'to close'. The original sense was 'bar from escaping', in late Middle English 'shut out', and 'bar from doing something' (sense 2), hence specifically 'bar someone from redeeming a mortgage' (sense 1, early 18th cent.)
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