| 词汇 | life-imprisonment |
| 释义 | life imprisonment noun[ U ] uk /ˌlaɪf ɪmˈprɪz.ən.mənt/ us /ˌlaɪf ɪmˈprɪz.ən.mənt/(informallife) the punishment of being put in prison for a very long time without an arranged time for release or, in the US, until death终身监禁，无期徒刑 See also life sentence Putting people in prison at His/Her Majesty's pleasureidiom bang someone up bar behind barsidiom bird commit immured imprison imprisonment in custody incarcerate intern lock pen remand someone in custody restraint rot rot in jail, prison, etc.idiom self-surrender stretch Examples of life imprisonmentlife imprisonment Accordingly, the court directed that the death sentences be replaced by sentences of lifeimprisonment. The recommendation to mercy and the custom of commuting those rare death sentences handed down to female felons to lifeimprisonment reinforced women's inferiority. When he returned to his home country in order to distribute his work, he was arrested and sentenced to lifeimprisonment in 1881. They risk lifeimprisonment or worse, simply because their religion is different from that of the ruling power. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English On conviction, the maximum sentence available to the court for these offences is lifeimprisonment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A person convicted of robbery with violence may, under the present law, be sentenced to lifeimprisonment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Among those serving lifeimprisonment there will then be many more men with a latent tendency to violence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In 1959, of 75 persons convicted of the offence of manslaughter where a maximum sentence of lifeimprisonment applied, 64 were sentenced to imprisonment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Separate figures are not available for those prisoners serving sentences of lifeimprisonment and those serving determinate sentences. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we do not have capital punishment, we must have lifeimprisonment, but that has failed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would be quite wrong to fix a definite time as meaning lifeimprisonment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would, therefore, much rather discuss these issues at the appropriate time, when we can go into all the questions affecting lifeimprisonment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The question is whether nine or ten years of imprisonment, representing lifeimprisonment, is sufficient to frighten the criminal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There might also be the case of a man sentenced to lifeimprisonment who was not mentally very stable and yet was not certifiable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The ordinary people think that lifeimprisonment should mean imprisonment for life, and nothing else whatsoever. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of life imprisonment 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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