| 词汇 | unpunished |
| 释义 | unpunished adjective[ after verb ] uk /ʌnˈpʌn.ɪʃt/ us /ʌnˈpʌn.ɪʃt/ not punished: 未受惩罚的 If a referee allows a foul like that to go unpunished he's asking for trouble.如果裁判对那样的犯规都不给予处罚，那他就是在自寻麻烦。 Not punishing & reducing punishment absolve amnesty be off the hookidiom clear of something commutation discharge escape get away with murderidiom get away with something get off get off lightlyphrase hook impunity privilege remit reprieve royal pardon scot-free spare unsanctioned Examples of unpunishedunpunished I was not to go unpunished for my breach of professional ethics, though retribution was another two years coming. However, in 1989 there were student demonstrations against corruption, and one of the demands was that 12 unpunished cases be brought to justice. In cases where there are many contributors defectors often go unnoticed and unpunished. Moreover, the majority of people against whom indictments or informations were filed went unpunished. In many camps, crimes go unpunished because there is no adequate force to back up what rule of law does exist. If silenced, not only would the rebels go unpunished, but history might interpret their actions in a favourable light. Since serious cases were handled leniently, the offenders went unpunished and people who had been wronged did not dare to come forward. Had the judge not been particularly shrewd, the culprit would have gone unpunished. The moral universe in which such evil is unhindered and unpunished, in which wickedness not only prospers but is indulged with impunity, may seem radically out of joint. Popper showed him later that no good deed goes unpunished. In the context of the novel, the covert and unpunished acts of fraud that sustain such extravagance threaten the financial and moral health of the nation to a great degree. Bevin hoped, however, that the government would be able before the cut-off date to decide what to do about less serious cases so that they would not go unpunished. This created a precedent, a warning to bureaucrats that their follies would not go unnoticed and unpunished. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Houses are broken into for the purpose of theft, highway robberies are committed, ordinary crime is absolutely-undetected and unpunished. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It concerns our world and its future because the accused is not only free and unpunished but powerful, self-righteous and influential. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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