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。
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-acusia
1. process
a bene placito
A. E. Housman
active biological film
active energy
aggregate purchasing power
antisludging
articles of incorporation
backwrap
banana sailfish
before one knows where one is
bosnia and herzegovina
brachymeria minuta
bringing up against
caracallas
chain-of-responsibility pattern
Charcot
Christmasy
complex beltconveyor
convective motion
cornel
corrales de rabago
Corynebacterium pertrophilum
countable base
courtable
creaketh
decision tree method
deejayed
deformation testing
dual regulation
emailloid
fault outcrop
flat-tax
fore-limbbud
four phase modulation
frost retarding layer
fulfil a task
gaugers
gibrel
Gilbert, Mt.
grodiest
handgriping
hanna
Hemichoreoathetosis
high density buffer
high-stringency
hmm
Hoengsong
homogeneous linear equation
horticultural sheet glass
inter-dealer
jugular embryocardia
keto-myo-inositol
kimberli
leporillus conditor
lymphonodi ilici
manager's check
mechanical booster
meet the needs
mianch fever
microinsularity
mile's law
misrules
molluscigerous
morlbillous
move inverse
neglected plot
ouedraogoes
outer frame
periphysis
photron
poet's jasmines
policy of least privilege
primary moisture separator
prophage subsitution
pseudohecogenin
rail profile recorder
reinduces
retrograde embolism
safety handle
scarce commodity
self relative addressing
servo-positioning
smarthole
snipper-snapper
southrop
sulcus for subclavian vein
survivorship biases
thyromental
transient shock wave
trichogene cell
Ulanova, Galina Sergeyerna
unsensibly
unspoused
unstabled
vault-worthy
weight differential
with one's last gasp
wreatt
Ylivieska