Penal
['piːn(ə)l] or ['pinl]
解释:
(adj.) subject to punishment by law; 'a penal offense' .
(adj.) serving as or designed to impose punishment; 'penal servitude' .
(adj.) of or relating to punishment; 'penal reform'; 'penal code' .
整理:威尔伯--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
(a.) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.
(a.) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
(a.) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.
手打:纳塔利
同义词及近义词:
a. Punitive.
校对:莫蒂默
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Retributive, coercive, visitatorial, castigatory, inflictive, corrective,punitive
ANT:Remunerative, reparatory, decorative, honorary
编辑:汤姆
解释:
adj. pertaining to incurring or constituting punishment: used for punishment.—v.t. Pē′nalise to lay under penalty.—adv. Pē′nally.—Penal laws laws prohibiting certain actions under penalties; Penal servitude hard labour in a prison as a punishment for crime—introduced in England in 1853 instead of transportation; Penal statute a statute imposing a penalty or punishment for crime.
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