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
8514-A
a passing acquaintance with
additional minuteur hand
affectated
Anthony's capsule staining
anticlinal limb
antisymmetric wing
as little as
axial mount
bailiffship
band chain
basket nursery
be decked with
be flashy
be out of your mind
befooled
China made
chlorophilline
chondrodystrophia hyperplastica
choque
coherent boundary
colorimetric shift
come up against a brick wall
communication of the offer
confounded design
countercommercial
cowgirl
cubic millimetres
cubic texture
cvsd(continuously variable slope delta)modulation
depressive disorder
desynchronising
douglas fir pole
durry
electric automatic time release
electric travelling roller
electrocoat
electroslag welding machine
epileptiform
extemporisation
fish sauces
freese
fueling bowl
had advantage of
head-mounted device
hold up
hope to god
humeral crossvein
hypothalamic-pituitary-gonad axis
kubizit (analcite)
Laguerre differential equation
lineto
lipoblasts
look and feel
microcosm (small universe)
microtiles
misbleed
molecular ion breakup
Momuy
n-octylamine
natomy
normal danger signal
oliva carneola
omnicompeten
operation part
operator inquiry
Paisleyism
Palaiokhora
pantisocrats
pile guide housing
power spectral density (psd)
puka pu
quotient verdicts
radial passage
radio phonograph set
rat-baitings
recapture clause
release electro magnetic valve
rolling balls
rubber pinch tip
sea mud
sight case
Sjogren-Larsson
song-and-dances
sparkled
storage cask
stormed
summer time act
superstring
synaptene
tanghsien stage
tape calendering
Tecfidera
terminal-oriented network
thrust equation
took over
transonic fighter
trial balance of footings
tumor of larynx
upland antshrike
welding thermit
winner-takes-all network