英语单词 | indict |
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英美音标 | 英 [ɪn'daɪt] 美 [ɪn'daɪt] |
中文释义 | v.起诉;控告;指控 |
英语例句 | (1) He grew anxious over the possibility that the Justice Department might now indict him for perjury. (2) The Q&A session, which was audiotaped, came about two months prior to the child's initial appearance before the grand jury that later voted to indict Jackson on ten felony counts. |
中文例句 | (1) 他越来越担心司法部现在可能起诉他作伪证。 (2) 录音的问答单元的出现要比男孩在以十项罪名起诉杰克逊大陪审团面前的最初露面早两个月。 |
vocabulary简明 | If you accuse someone of committing an offense, you indict them. A book that indicts the entire education system might lay out all the reasons that schools are failing kids. |
vocabulary扩展 | In a legal sense, the verb indict means to bring formal charges against someone, especially in a court of law, as in a federal grand jury. The grand jury indicted, the man on 12 counts of murder. Although it's true the boy had stolen cookies from the cookie jar in the past, that is no reason to indict him out of hand in the present case. There were no witnesses and the crumb evidence would suggest someone else committed the crime. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]控告;告发;起诉 If someone is indicted for a crime, they are officially charged with it. [ [ [ [V-ed] [usu passive] [mainly AM 主美] [LEGAL 法律]
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