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
backin
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Biokovo
blosser
buccofacial obturator
burdock oil
Bustamante, B.
calcium selenite
cartilaginous myxoma
chemical potential
Cinehona ledgeriana Moens.
cis-regulation
cobill-nut
collaborative divorce
commencing date
commutator end head
complementary transaction
convertible instrument
counter urbanization
crampus neurosis
dactyliss
dermanyssoid
Dhronecken
diffusion sugar loss
disgust
Domes-booke
double time constant sync signal
dryness of steam
edit item
eezs
existentialists
extended vendor file
fabric setting
figbird
firing rod
first angle projection
flock of sea birds
force-multiplier
frowardnesses
Gallicize, gallicising
gene-prediction
Guinea, G.of
have sth. pat
heavier
homophyly
iodquecksilber (iodquicksilver)
jackbox
julius marxes
khitmatgar
kith and kine
krupin
land owners
letter-oriented algorithm
Lora, Pta.
low specific-speed
MacBride
machine for testing material
mammillariform
Margaret Rutherford
memescape
minigrinder
monochromatic measurement
neper Napier's Diagram
net highway transport production output value
new-design
non volatile and fast static memories
overbrowse
papilionine
phosphorosilicate glass
pionic
pottance
presshouses
program modification
Puerto Marquez
rawa
regeneration felling
REV revision
root graft
rotary exhaust box
ruffage
Scipio Aemilianus
SD card
semi-continuous kiln
septennially
serpentinising
sialisterium
sikora
sore-winner
subtle trap
sucker-rod coupling
surface tension reducer
tae'd
Tel'mana, im
The Mountie always gets his man
Tiloshade
total account
trustee investment
Urophysa rockii
wardrobed
Wilberforce, Samuel
year and date mark
YS (yield strength)