英语单词 | clemency |
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英美音标 | 英 ['klemənsi] 美 ['klemənsi] |
中文释义 | n.仁慈;宽厚,宽容,忍让;(气候)温和,温暖,和善;仁慈的举动,宽厚的举动 |
英语例句 | (1) He appealed to the judge for clemency. (2) They addressed to the governor a plea for clemency. |
中文例句 | (1) 他乞求法官开恩。 (2) 他们向州长提出了宽刑的申辩书。 |
vocabulary简明 | Say you're playing a role-playing game and you end up in one of the other player's dungeons. You could try begging him for clemency — compassion shown by people in power towards people who rebel or break the law. |
vocabulary扩展 | Clemency is also a weather word, though nowadays it's much more common to hear people talk about "inclement weather" than, say, "the clemency of the storm." Derived from the Latin for "gentle", it came into usage in the 1550s. If you have trouble remembering its meaning, get rid of the "cle" and replace the "n" with an "r". You're left with "mercy", which more or less means the same thing. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]宽大;轻判;宽恕 If someone is granted clemency, they are punished less severely than they could be. [FORMAL 正式]
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