Crime
[kraɪm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; 'a long record of crimes'.
(noun.) an evil act not necessarily punishable by law; 'crimes of the heart'.
手打:特雷弗--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.
(n.) Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.
(n.) Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
(n.) That which occasion crime.
校對:琳达
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Felony, aggravated misdemeanor, gross offence (especially against human law), infraction of law.[2]. Sin, transgression, iniquity, wickedness, unrighteousness, wrong, delinquency.
整理:肯尼思
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Offense, misdeed, wrong, misdemeanor, felony, enormity
ANT:Good_deed, well-doing, duty, obligation, exploit, achievement
贾尼斯編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a violation of law: an act punishable by law: offence: sin.—adjs. Crime′ful criminal; Crime′less without crime innocent; Criminal (krim′-) relating to crime: guilty of crime: violating laws.—n. one guilty of crime.—ns. Crim′inalist one versed in criminal law; Criminal′ity guiltiness.—adv. Crim′inally.—v.t. Crim′ināte to accuse.—n. Criminā′tion act of criminating: accusation.—adjs. Crim′inātive Crim′inātory involving crimination or accusation.—ns. Criminol′ogist; Criminol′ogy that branch of anthropology which treats of crime and criminals.—adj. Crim′inous criminal—now chiefly in the phrase 'a criminous clerk.'—n. Crim′inousness.—Criminal conversation often Crim. con. adultery.
整理:雷蒙德
例句/造句/用法:
- Why, Mr. Holmes, the crime was only committed at three this morning. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- To account for your own hard-heartedness and ingratitude in such a case, you are bound to prove the other party's crime. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A thousand times she reproached herself, as with a crime, that she should revive to happiness with him. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- A considerable crime is in contemplation. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- If great criminals told the truth--which, being great criminals, they do not--they would very rarely tell of their struggles against the crime. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The traces of consumption may become fainter, or be wholly effaced: the inherent tendency to vice or crime may be eradicated. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I also felt that I had committed every crime in the Newgate Calendar. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- However there appears to be nothing more to learn, and we may now go down to the scene of the crime. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- He remained on guard in the bedroom where the crime was committed, so as to see that nothing was touched. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- You know it is a capital crime, to mourn for, or sympathise with, a victim of the Guillotine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- He believes that Willoughby Smith had not an enemy in the world, and can give no reason for the crime. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible crime. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I looked with interest upon this man, who was accused of being the perpetrator of a crime of violence. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Have I not carefully avoided exposing myself to the odium of committing unnecessary crime? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- An undue love of Self leads to the most monstrous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipp'd of justice! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- These were crimes his elders fretted over among themselves and proposed to punish when the opportunity should offer. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Beneath the crimes and disorders of the palaces, the life of the city and country ran a similar course. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was a time of confusion, of brigandage, of crimes unpunished and universal insecurity. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Awful crimes, no doubt; but he did not tell me what: there, you knowthe seal of the confessional checked his garrulity, and my curiosity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- On that night he had determined to consummate his crimes by my death. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- John Bull does abhor the crimes of John Chinaman. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I said, they were fellows of desperate fortunes, forced to fly from the places of their birth on account of their poverty or their crimes. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- It accuses them of crimes intended as well as perpetrated, sir. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But, my dear Miss Halcombe, my dear Lady Glyde, do you really believe that crimes cause their own detection? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- He was one of those who held that nothing should be done hastily, and that few crimes were worse than waste of time. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Tell him next, that crimes cause their own detection. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- When I reflected on his crimes and malice, my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
錄入:索尔