amnesty
amnesty 英 [ˈæmnəsti] 美 [ˈæmnɪsti]
n. 大赦，特赦 vt. 对…实行大赦
进行时:amnestying 过去式:amnestied 过去分词:amnestied 第三人称单数:amnesties 名词复数:amnesties
- Amnesty can mean a pardon for a wrongdoing, or it can also signal a government's willingness to overlook something.
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- n. 大赦，特赦
- vt. 对…实行大赦
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1. “The plan would bring undocumented workers already in this country out of the shadows without amnesty and without animosity,” he said.
他说："这项方案将使已在美国的无证件非法移民无需通过大赦、也不引起敌对情绪地摆脱阴影。
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2. About a third of his nominees so far are from the previous cabinet, some of whom dealt with the most sensitive subjects such as the amnesty in the Delta region.
大约有三分之一的被提名人来自前内阁，其中一些人处理过诸如在三角洲地区的大赦等一些最敏感的问题。
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3. Republicans have in the past branded any attempt to regularise their position as “amnesty”, an ugly word that killed the last attempt at reform in 2007.
共和党人过去把合法化非法移民的任何尝试标榜为“特赦”，这一丑陋的字眼抹杀了2007年最后一次改革的尝试。
- amnesty (n.) 1570s, "a ruling authority's pardon of past offenses," from French amnistie "intentional overlooking" (16c.), from Latin amnestia, from Greek amnestia "forgetfulness (especially of wrong); an amnesty," from amnestos "forgotten; forgetful," from a- "not" (see a- (3)) + mnestis "remembrance," which is related to mnaomai "I remember," from PIE root *men- (1) "to think."
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