sentencing

Sentencing will be in three weeks .

三个星期内将会有判决。

One judge openly expressed sympathy for our actions at the sentencing .

一名法官在判决时公开对我们的行动表示同情。

The judge has the final say on the sentence .

法官对判决有最后的决定权。

A compound sentence contains two or more clauses .

复合句包含两个或多个从句。

The court granted him leave to appeal against the sentence .

法庭准许他对判决提出上诉。

She was pardoned after serving ten years of a life sentence .

她被判终身监禁服刑十年后被赦免了。

A sentence can be divided up into meaningful segments .

一个句子可以划分成有意义的各个部分。

What does this sentence mean ?

这个句子是什么意思？

The prisoner has served his sentence and will be released tomorrow .

犯人已服刑期满，明天将获释。

The offence carries a mandatory life sentence .

这种罪行依照法律要判无期徒刑。

The courts were empowered to impose the death sentence for certain crimes .

法院有权因某些罪行判处罪犯死刑。

The judge will pronounce sentence today .

法官将于今天宣判。

The judge passed sentence .

法官宣布了判决。

The judge gave him a nine-month suspended sentence .

法官判处他有期徒刑九个月，缓期执行。

The judge gave him a custodial sentence .

法官判处他监禁。

He was convicted of assaulting a police officer but he got off with a light sentence .

他被定了个殴打警察罪，然而却得到从轻判处。

There were extenuating circumstances and the defendant did not receive a prison sentence .

因有可减轻罪行的情节被告未被判刑。

The sentence had been wrongly translated .

这个句子翻译错了。

The government insists that ' prison works ' and plans to introduce a tougher sentencing policy for people convicted of violent crime .

政府坚持认为“关押有效”，并计划对暴力犯罪者实行更严厉的判刑政策。

a noun in the form of the present participle of a verb , for example travelling in the sentence I preferred travelling alone .

动名词

a group of words that is not a sentence but adds information to the main part of a sentence , for example when it rang in She answered the phone when it rang .

从句；从属分句

Put a word in each blank to complete the sentence .

每个空格填上一个单词，把句子补充完整。

The court is expected to pass sentence later today .

预计法院今天晚些时候会宣布判决。

The court has passed sentence and the matter is now at an end

法庭已经作出了判决，现在这件事已经告一段落。

These rules tell us how a sentence is broken down into phrases .

这些规则告诉我们一个句子是怎样分解成若干短语的。

Your task is to interchange words so that the sentence makes sense .

你们要做的就是调换单词的位置以使句子意义通顺。

This was a dreadful crime and a severe sentence is necessary

这一罪行十分恶劣，必须要重判。

The offences carry a maximum sentence of 10 years .

这些罪行最高可判10年徒刑。

There is a possibility of being able to trade off information for a reduced sentence .

有可能以情报换取减刑。

He said there was a need for proportionality in sentencing .

他说量刑时应当做到罚罪相当。