reprieve
reprieve 英 [rɪˈpri:v] 美 [rɪˈpriv]
vt. 缓期执行；暂时解救 n. 暂缓；缓刑
进行时:reprieving 过去式:reprieved 过去分词:reprieved 第三人称单数:reprieves 名词复数:reprieves
- A reprieve is a break in or cancellation of a painful or otherwise lousy situation. If you're being tortured, a reprieve is a break from whatever's tormenting you.
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- vt. 缓期执行；暂时解救
- n. 暂缓；缓刑
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1. Officials say that in the first half of this year it overturned 15% of death sentences. But police-killers are unlikely candidates for reprieve.
官方人员表示，今年上半年中国已经推翻了15%的死刑判决，但这个杀害警察的凶手不太可能获得缓刑。
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2. Iran's judiciary could reinstate her sentence of death by stoning, execute her by another means, or possibly even grant her a reprieve, according to human rights groups.
根据人权组织的报道，伊朗司法的机构，以后可以恢复用石头砸死她的判决，也可以用另一种形式来执行死刑，或者，甚至可能给予她缓刑。
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3. As far as wild animals and plants on the edge of extinction goes, we may not entirely believe in a reprieve but it would be inhuman of us not to try for one.
在野生动植物走向灭绝的今天，我们可能不会完全相信暂时的解救措施，但是如果我们不进行尝试的话，那就是不人道。
- reprieve (n.) 1590s, from reprieve (v.).
- reprieve (v.) 1570s, reprive, "take back to prison," alteration (perhaps by influence of reprove) of Middle English repryen "to remand, detain" (late 15c.), probably from Middle French repris, past participle of reprendre "take back" (see reprise). Meaning "to suspend an impending execution" is recorded from 1590s; this sense evolved because being sent back to prison was the alternative to being executed. Spelling with -ie- is from 1640s, perhaps by analogy of achieve, etc. Related: Reprieved; reprieving.
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