时间:2019-01-23 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


英语课

今天我们要学的词是commute 1。 Commute, 有减刑的意思。"The inmate's sentence was commuted 2 from death to life imprisonment," 意思是这名囚犯从死刑被减为无期徒刑。美国副总统切尼的前办公室主任利比今年三月因为向大陪审团做伪证被判处30个月的监禁。


美国总统布什上星期宣布给利比减刑。媒体报道说,"Bush commuted Libby's 2 1/2 year prison term, calling the sentence 'excessive'," 意思是布什减轻了利比两年半的刑期,理由是利比被判的刑期太长。好的,今天我们学习的词是commute...



vi.乘车上下班;vt.减(刑);折合;n.上下班交通
  • I spend much less time on my commute to work now.我现在工作的往返时间要节省好多。
  • Most office workers commute from the suburbs.很多公司的职员都是从郊外来上班的。
通勤( commute的过去式和过去分词 ); 减(刑); 代偿
  • His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment. 他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
  • The death sentence may be commuted to life imprisonment. 死刑可能減为无期徒刑。
学英语单词
admission notice
amylism
aniline-formaldehyde lacquer
annex store
annulus drag
benzhydryl bromide
bi-series correlation
braided twill weave
brainwave
brushless motor
clarn
clotworthy
cold-caser
commercial bribery
corn campion
cryst morphology
cyanine dye
deglubing
demolished
docosanoid
dynamic decomposition
ear-bob
echinozoa
embrittling agent
engeland
eudemonic, eudemonical
ex mine
feedback oscillation
fog droplet
fusion cuisine,fusion cookery
gardiners
gastric intussusception
genetic cline
get short shrift from sb
getting a load of
graffin
gross weight distribution
id.
inanaphysis
indissolved
intradermal abscess
Iris tectorum Maxim.
jacking platen
joint draft resolution
keep calm about
kinetoscopefilm
liquor pyroaceticus
logoff
looser-milkman(syndrome)
LSRA
luminous house number
massively parallel network
massiver
maximum depth of cut
medial
Meinheim
mismas
monk-corn
navigation condition
nib-forming die
nonreciprocal trade preference
notch sensitivity
O/F
obtuse-angled triangles
oil-base drilling fluid
Old Malton
Orniblende
osseous labyrinth
Parabrandtite
pedalboards
Pediculus inguinalis
petrosalpinstaphylinus
plunger lift when cut-off port closing
porphinering
protoplasms
psychomotor abilities
pulmonary coniosis
rejuvenation of crystal
relay-operated controller
Rome Was Not Built In One Day
rotary peeler
schmults
secure visual communication
shallow-hardening steel
sheathing case
sloping bed
stay tuned
strip feed device
surfcontrol
Taxillus limprichtii
three-five compound (iii-v compound)
unsmart
untampered
usable field strength
V-cylinder
value-ladens
vitamin V
wave sample
white collar
wild spinaches
with open ears
WWJT