Seizure在法律英语中指的是“起获；没收；充公；起获的赃物；没收的财产”，英文表达为the use of legal authority to take sth from sb; an amount of sth that is taken in this way. 比如：seizure goods 没收货物；seizure of contraband 没收违禁品；seizure of illegal income 没收违法所得；seizure of assets 没收财产。在战争中，也可以表示“对国家、城市或某一领域的夺取；占领；控制”，比如：the army's seizure of power 军队对政权的夺取；the seizure of territory through force对领土的武装占领。

参考例句：In recent weeks, the Council has expressed its deep and growing alarm at the escalating conflict between the Sudan and South Sudan, including troop movements, seizure of territory, support to proxy forces and aerial bombardments — a situation that the Council has rightly characterized as a threat to international peace and security.

最近几周，安理会对苏丹和南苏丹之间的冲突不 断升级，包括调动部队、占据领土、支持代理军队和实施空中轰炸，表示深切和日益严重的不安，安理会正确地认为这种局势威胁到国际和平与安全。

The typology proposed by the Secretariat, with a view to providing a comparative overview of the content and evolution of the relevant provisions in conventional practice, divides the conventions including such provisions into four categories: (a) the 1929 International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency and other conventions following the same model; (b) the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Additional Protocol I; (c) regional conventions on extradition; and (d) the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (1970 Hague Convention) and other conventions following the same model.

秘书处提出的分类方法旨在用比较的方法概述这类条款的内容及其在公约实践中的演变情况，将含有这类条款的公约分为四类：(a)1929年《取缔伪造货币国际公约》及沿用同一模式的其他公约；(b)1949年日内瓦四公约和1977年第一附加议定书；(c)关于引渡的区域性公约；以及(d)《关于制止非法劫持航 空器的公约》(1970年《海牙公约》)及沿用同一模式的其他公约。

In the three years from 2008 to 2010, there were a total of 17 919 cases of seizure of goods and paraphernalia upon conviction of unlicensed hawking.

2008年至2010年的3年内，共有17919宗因无牌贩卖被定罪而遭充公货物及工具的个案。