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
acicular aggregate
allomixis
amandone colours
aperiodicity stretch
aphylla
Aplodinotus
araucaria bidwilliis
baby-cry
bad-mannered
basulard
bdam (basic direct access method)
Bertrand curve
blow-overs
cancer surgery
cladinonic acid
closed condenser
cloud filtering
cold isostatic pressing (cip)
Coldwater River
comedy psychology
company accounts
constrainest
direct reader
disenthrallment
dispersing manipulation
Eulophilla
extinction-type
fashion shares
filterbank
finish off
friction revolution counter
Friedrichsruh
geologic high
get along in years
gns
gulets
handovers
hydrogen-burning
IMVPC
infusile
jazz (n. africa)
job bidding
kan wu
kicking the habit
Knosos
knowledge management (km)
Kompong Krassang, Stung
krons
law of the minimum
Leicester, Robert Dudley
lumbardar
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marumba gaschkewitschii gressitti
mediterraneo
medium dissemination
microflex
Nadymskiy Rayon
nappan
net absorption
neuron doctrine
nips
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osso bucco
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particular average
pleiophylly
Precise Code
pteracanthus
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sepahua
servo altimeter
sexfoil
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softgels
static slot
stereoscopic projection
studentized range
Sub Boreal
sulfuric acid ester
superaddition
T-network
take-back legislation
tartrobismuthate
Thomas,John Charles
three year old
time-distance basis
top-roll balance
transistor symbol
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turned someone off
vacuum distance
vesicourethral canal
vGRX
weather exposure
werfener beds
workshyness
xanthochvoite
years' purchase