reprieve

英 [rɪˈpriːv]

美 [rɪˈpriːv]

v.  撤销…的死刑; 缓期执行…的死刑; 取消关闭; 暂缓终止
n.  刑罚终止令; (尤指)死刑缓刑令; 延缓; 缓解

过去分词：reprieved　过去式：reprieved　现在分词：reprieving　复数：reprieves　第三人称单数：reprieves　

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.15169 / COCA.16877

牛津词典

verb

• 撤销…的死刑；缓期执行…的死刑
  to officially cancel or delay a punishment for a prisoner who is condemned to death
  1. a reprieved murderer
     被判死刑而暂缓执行的杀人犯
• 取消关闭；暂缓终止
  to officially cancel or delay plans to close sth or end sth
  1. 70 jobs have been reprieved until next April.
     有70个职位暂时保留到明年四月份。

noun

• 刑罚终止令；（尤指）死刑缓刑令
  an official order stopping a punishment, especially for a prisoner who is condemned to death
• 延缓；缓解
  a delay before sth bad happens
  1. Campaigners have won a reprieve for the hospital threatened with closure.
     活动家们为这家受关闭威胁的医院赢得了喘息的机会。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 对…缓期执行，撤销…的刑罚
  If someone who has been sentenced in a courtis reprieved, their punishment is officially delayed or cancelled.
  1. Fourteen people, waiting to be hanged for the murder of a former prime minister, have been reprieved.
     因谋杀前首相而即将处以绞刑的14个人已获缓刑。
  2. Reprieveis also a noun.
     
  3. A man awaiting death by lethal injection has been saved by a last minute reprieve.
     一个即将被执行注射死刑的男子在最后一分钟获得缓刑。
• N-COUNT (不好或艰难情况的)暂缓，延缓
  Areprieveis a delay before a very unpleasant or difficult situation which may or may not take place.
  1. It looked as though the college would have to shut, but this week it was given a reprieve.
     这所大学看起来要关闭了，但这周情况暂时有所缓解。

英英释义

noun

• the act of reprieving
  Synonym:respite
• a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence)
• an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
  Synonym:suspensionrespitehiatusabatement
• a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
  Synonym:respite

verb

• relieve temporarily
• postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution
  Synonym:respite

双语例句

• Practice has shown that most of the criminals who are given the death penalty with reprieve have had their punishment reduced to life imprisonment or a set term of imprisonment, after expiration of the two-year reprieve.
  从审判实践看，绝大多数被判处死刑缓期执行的罪犯在二年期满后均被减为无期徒刑或有期徒刑。
• The government gave rim a 60-day reprieve but warned that it would have to set up a server within India during this period.
  印度政府给了rim公司60天的暂缓期，但警告称它必须在这段时间内建立本地服务器。
• One tender moment's reprieve from loneliness can illuminate a life.
  刹时间从孤独中的解脱可以影响一生的生活。
• A last-minute reprieve is highly unlikely, and his execution next week seems inevitable.
  最后一刻的缓刑看来极不可能了，他下周的死刑在所难免。
• Even this extra minute was a reprieve.
  就这样多拖延一分钟也好象是一种缓刑。
• Unless there is a reprieve the condemned man will hang on Friday.
  除非缓刑，那个被宣判的人将于星期五被处绞刑。
• We can not help worrying that it may make disposition power of criminal justice weak and penalty reprieve possible.
  然而，其可能引起的对国家刑事实体处分权的松动及刑罚轻缓化泛化等的趋向不能不令人担忧。
• I consider this a reprieve.
  我觉得这样算是个缓刑。
• A preliminary psychological report prepared by reprieve concluded that he suffered from "delusional psychosis".
  由reprieve准备的一份初步心理学报告得出结论认为，沙伊克患有“妄想性精神病”。
• Will time reward us some reprieve?
  时间能给我们缓刑么？