| 词汇 | leniency |
| 释义 | leniency noun[ U ] uk /ˈliː.ni.ən.si/ us /ˈliː.ni.ən.si/ treatment in which someone is punished or judged less strongly or severely than would be expected: 宽大;仁慈 The defending lawyer asked for leniency on the grounds of her client's youth.辩护律师以其当事人还年轻为由请求宽大处理。 But for the leniency of the referee, the player would have been sent off.如果不是裁判的宽宏大量，这名球员就会被罚下场。 See lenient The courts were urged to show leniency toward the boy. His decision brought widespread criticism for undue leniency. His victims were disappointed with the leniency of the sentence. Lenient & merciful charitable charitably charity clemency ease ease up/off easy go easyidiom have a heart!idiom heart lenient magnanimous magnanimously merciful mercy quarter squishy Examples of leniencyleniency Much leniency, however, was less visible to the public. In these cases, the judges showed no such leniency to female defendants or their male lovers. As events were to show, this leniency on the part of the authorities was distinctly premature. Neither did analysis of court sentencing point conclusively to preferential treatment of women over men, though there were some indications of greater leniency. Indeed, it provides a foil for the species of leniency which raku seems to embody. Seeking government support may be associated with advantages other than regulatory leniency, and therefore not necessarily specific for pollution-intensive industries. A policy of leniency or strictness was clearly but an incidental and political means to that desired end. In either case, one can only appreciate in retrospect the irony in the judicial leniency towards the new partisan role experts took as witnesses. The leniency of such requirements varies a lot across countries. It could, however, also be seen as an opportunity, given that the parties could muster some conceptual leniency toward each other. Collectivists, in contrast, are expected to show greater leniency towards the unemployed across all aspects of their treatment. Perhaps, the leniency noted here should be counted among the experiments. In many cases this 'leniency' was possible because the original sentence had been questionable or obviously unwarranted. Proof of the accused's good behaviour after the filing of the information did not always prompt leniency from the government. The leniency and accommodation shown to various individual marital strategies are understandable in the context of their investment in the social status quo. See all examples of leniency These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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