reprieve
英 [rɪ'priːv]
美[rɪ'priv]
- vt. 缓期执行；暂时解救
- n. 暂缓；缓刑
实用场景例句
- a reprieved murderer
- 被判死刑而暂缓执行的杀人犯
牛津词典
- 70 jobs have been reprieved until next April.
- 有70个职位暂时保留到明年四月份。
牛津词典
- Campaigners have won a reprieve for the hospital threatened with closure.
- 活动家们为这家受关闭威胁的医院赢得了喘息的机会。
牛津词典
- Fourteen people, waiting to be hanged for the murder of a former prime minister, have been reprieved.
- 因谋杀前首相而即将处以绞刑的14个人已获缓刑。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- It looked as though the college would have to shut, but this week it was given a reprieve.
- 这所大学看起来要关闭了，但这周情况暂时有所缓解。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- That past weeks had been an unexpected brief reprieve.
- 过去的几星期不过是出乎意外的苟延残喘.
辞典例句
- These considerations , of themselves very powerful , induced the spectatorsapprehend the possibility of a reprieve to him.
- 这些猜测颇有分量, 使观众不由不预料到他有可能得到缓刑.
期刊摘选
- As for my unlikely allies, I think that I shall allow them a reprieve.
- 至于我的盟友们, 我想我应该给他们一个缓刑的机会.
期刊摘选
- Unless there is a reprieve the condemned man will hang on Friday.
- 除非缓刑,那个被宣判的人将于星期五被处绞刑.
期刊摘选
- Campaigners have won a reprieve for the hospital threatened with closure.
- 活动家们为这家受关闭威胁的医院赢得了喘息的机会.
期刊摘选
- The news from Saarland was an unexpected reprieve for the CDU.
- 然而,从萨尔兰州传来的消息却意外的给了CDU当头一棒.
期刊摘选
- The FSA may enjoy its reprieve only until the next election.
- 到下一届大选之前,FSA也许还可以暂时存在一段时间.
期刊摘选
- He was saved from the gallows by a lastminute reprieve.
- 最后一刻的缓刑令把他从绞架上解救了下来.
《简明英汉词典》
- The criminal won his reprieve at the eleventh hour.
- 罪犯在最后的关头获得缓刑.
期刊摘选
- Britain gained this reprieve because it has some things going for it as a sovereign borrower.
- 英国的债务之所以能够得到延迟是因为他是以国家来负债.
期刊摘选
- One tender moment's reprieve from loneliness can illuminate a life.
- 刹时间从孤独中的解脱可以影响一生的生活.
期刊摘选
- The periodic table would appear thus to have won a temporary reprieve.
- 元素周期表的修改貌似要减缓咯.
期刊摘选
- To some we should similarly apply the policy of passing the death sentence with a reprieve.
- 其中有些人亦应采取判死缓刑的政策.
期刊摘选
- Even this extra minute was a reprieve.
- 就这样多拖延一分钟也好象是一种缓刑.
辞典例句
- Commutation is distinct from reprieve.
- 减刑不同于缓刑.
辞典例句
- The family have won a temporary reprieve from eviction.
- 这个家庭暂时免于被逐出.
《简明英汉词典》
- The judge pronounced to reprieve a condemned prisoner
- 法官宣布缓期执行被判罪囚犯的刑罚。
辞典例句
- A man awaiting death by lethal injection has been saved by a last minute reprieve.
- 一个即将被执行注射死刑的男子在最后一分钟获得缓刑。
柯林斯例句
- It looked as though the college would have to shut, but this week it was given a reprieve.
- 这所大学看起来要关闭了，但这周情况暂时有所缓解。
柯林斯例句
