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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Abbottina
Alaska king crab
alumogoethite
alvear
aming
appearance-reality distinction
arylam
autologous protein
autumn pumpkins
Azmin
basipharyngeal canal
cambridge-blue
carnitine deficiency
CCPIT
center-
cependant
change control authority
character displacement
chlorid
chronic granular myringitis
circular plain bearing
Clathraceae
compcsite fluid
congressional oversight
conservates
curried beef
cycloplegic
cyperaquinone
dahabeeyahs
Darvi
decriminalizing
dicantrops
don't-tell
Donders' test
dynamic change of temperature
endomorphism of algebraic system
endotheloid
ethercap
explosion-proof glass
five-year plan
flat-roofeds
floor-on-grade
forgiven and forgotten
fusible pattern
Gelsemium sempervirens
gifts
give the back of one's hands
grosshead
groundwater storage curve
high-forest
horse nettles
ilomastat
Isethadionum
isotope incorporation
josefa
lie of fetus
lightness constancy
line insertion
lucier
macrofollicular
mite-borne
moisture expansion
Monteggia fracture-dislocation
nolonin
nzo (new zealand obese) mouse
on site verification
open fermentation
organization cost written off
parallel inverter switch
pentacyclic triterpene
periodic observation
planning process
platoonmate
postcard
propyl-triethoxysilicane
prostatolith
QEMM
Raquelle
receiving manifold
record component
saliva glands
schleider
sciurus nigers
Self-selling
sheep-shank
shinier
spindliness
split bush
square mean
suboccipital muscles
Sulfachloropyridazine
tapioca snow
thrombopathy
ton force
unproven area
uroproct
ventilation level
Vossius' lenticular ring
warmful
washbox screenplate
water vapor cloud image
wooden truss