| 单词 | sentence |
| 释义 | sen·tence 1 /'sent-əns, -ənz/ n [Old French, opinion, judicial sentence, from Latin sententia, ultimately from sentire to feel, think, express an opinion] 1: a judgment formally pronouncing the punishment to be inflicted on one convicted of a crime 2: the punishment that one convicted of a crime is ordered to receive concurrent sentence: a sentence that runs at the same time as another consecutive sentence: a sentence that runs before or after another cumulative sentence: consecutive sentence in this entry; also: the combination of two or more consecutive sentences death sentence: a sentence condemning the convicted defendant to death de·ter·mi·nate sentence /di-'tər-mə-nət-/: a sentence for a fixed rather than indeterminate length of time general sentence: a sentence that does not allocate the punishment imposed for the individual counts on which the defendant was convicted ◇ General sentences are impermissible. in·de·ter·mi·nate sentence /ˌin-di-'tər-mə-nət-/: a sentence of minimum and maximum duration with the exact length to be later determined (as by a parole board) life sentence: a sentence of imprisonment for the rest of the convicted defendant's life mandatory sentence: a sentence that is specifically required or falls within a range required by statute as punishment for an offense imposed the minimum mandatory sentence for distributing drugs near a school presumptive sentence: a sentence that is the presumed punishment for an offense and is subject to the upward or downward adjustment of its severity depending on aggravating and mitigating factors split sentence: a sentence of which part is served in prison and the other suspended and usu. replaced by probation suspended sentence: a sentence the imposition or execution of which is suspended by the court sentence 2 vt sen·tenced, sen·tenc·ing: to impose a sentence on |
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