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TOEFL BNC: 1168 COCA: 2036

sentence

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Related topics: Grammar, Law
sen·tence1 /ˈsentəns/ ●●● S1 W2 noun [countableC]  
1  SLGWORD, PHRASE, OR SENTENCEa group of words that usually contains a subject and a verb, and expresses a complete idea. Sentences written in English begin with a capital letter and usually end with a full stop or a question mark 句子，句
 His voice dropped at the end of the sentence.
到句子结尾处，他压低了嗓音。
in a sentence
 It’s difficult to sum it up in one sentence.
很难用一句话来概括。
short/simple/full/complex etc sentence
 In a few short sentences, Quinn explained what he had done.
奎因用几句简短的话对自己所做的事作了解释。
2  SCTPUNISHa punishment that a judge gives to someone who is guilty of a crime 判决，判刑
 She received an eight-year prison sentence.
她被判八年徒刑。
 He has just begun a life sentence for murder.
他犯了谋杀罪，刚开始服无期徒刑。
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 COLLOCATIONS – Meaning 2: a punishment that a judge gives to someone who is guilty of a crime 判决，判刑
verbs
get/receive a sentence (also be given a sentence) 获刑,被判刑
She was given a three-year prison sentence.
她被判三年有期徒刑。
face a sentence (=be likely to receive a sentence) 面临判刑
He faces a long prison sentence if he is caught.
他如果被抓住,就要面临漫长的刑期。
serve a sentence (=spend time in prison) 服刑
Her husband is serving a two-year sentence for credit-card fraud.
她丈夫因犯信用卡诈骗罪正在服两年徒刑。
a crime carries a sentence (=that is the punishment for that crime) 某项罪要判刑
Rape should carry an automatic life sentence.
强奸罪应当自动判无期徒刑。
impose/hand down a sentence (=officially give someone a sentence) 判刑
The judge imposed a three-year sentence.
法官裁决判三年徒刑。
pass sentence formal (=officially say what someone’s punishment will be) 作出判决
nIt is now my duty to pass sentence.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + sentence
a stiff/long sentence (=a long time in prison) 严厉的/长期的刑罚
Police officers are demanding stiffer sentences for offenders.
警察要求对违法分子处以更严厉的刑罚。
a light/short sentence (=a short time in prison) 轻的/短期的刑罚
We’re hoping that he gets off with a light sentence.
我们希望对他能够从轻惩处。
a prison/jail sentence (also a custodial sentence British EnglishBrE formal) 监禁判决
If found guilty, he faces a long jail sentence.
如果被证明有罪,他将面临长期监禁。
a non-custodial sentence British EnglishBrE formal (=a punishment in which a person does not go to prison) 非监禁判决
nThe judge said the offence was too serious for a non-custodial sentence.
a five-year/eight-year etc sentence (=five/eight etc years in prison) 五年/八年等刑期
nHe was serving an eight-year sentence for burglary.
the maximum sentence (=the most that can be given for a particular crime) 最长刑期
nThe maximum sentence for this offence is five years.
a life sentence (=prison for the rest of your life, or a very long time) 无期徒刑,终身监禁
nIn 1978 he was given a life sentence for attacking a 72-year-old woman.
a death sentence (=a punishment of death) 死刑
nDeath sentences were handed down to eight of the accused.
a suspended sentence (=one which someone will serve only if they commit another crime) 缓刑
nHer attacker got a two-year suspended sentence.
Examples from the Corpus
sentence• He was recently freed after serving a sentence for leading anti-government riots.• That this is important was shown by one of the authors in two studies analysing sentences in the London courts in 1983.• Carl is a man of clipped sentences and positive, energetic action.• Write a complete sentence for each answer.• If found guilty of first-degree murder, Bangham could face a death sentence.• Richardson was convicted of murder and given a death sentence.• The victim's family are demanding the death sentence for his attacker.• Belfast Appeal Court increased his sentence from five to nine years.• Croy is currently serving a life sentence for the 1992 rape and murder of an Iowa woman.• Berger is serving a life sentence for the murders.• Hailey is serving a life sentence, and is reported to be in poor health.• Evans was given a light sentence in return for giving information to the police.• If convicted of the charges against him, Blackburn could receive a maximum sentence of 30 years.• Neale is finishing a three-month sentence for petty theft.• The opening sentence of the book defines the concept of Tai-Chi-Chuan.• Judge Evans will pass sentence on the three men tomorrow.• In all three examples, clues to the type of question are contained in the preceding sentence.• Moore began an eighteen-month prison sentence in November.• He got a 10-year prison sentence.• a six-year prison sentence• Try to write using short, punchy sentences.• Describe your best friend in a single sentence.• In cases of conduction aphasia, comprehension of spoken words and simple spoken sentences can be intact.• Before long, the sentence makes no sense, but the sound of the nonsense is rich.• Often you can salve their indignation and solve this problem by rewording the sentence.• Only 14 days for the seven years to be increased to the sentence that fits his crimes and his evil - life.• As this sentence was pronounced, each sanam slid from its pedestal and smashed to the ground.• Perrault is serving a 15-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion.
in a sentence• Also, they commonly appear as subordinate elements in a sentence where the main clause indicates the speaker.• He has about four months remaining in a sentence imposed by a federal judge in Boston June 15,1994.• The sounds in sentences subtest involves the child being told a story which is illustrated with pictures.• Speak in sentences rather than individual words.• She was slow to talk, but when she did, she quickly learned to talk in sentences.• Repeated Words Signs: Words repeated four or five times in an average paragraph or three or more times in a sentence.• All have large vocabularies and sets of rules for putting words together in sentences.• Adverb position illustrates how hard it is to say positively what goes with what in a sentence.
Related topics: Law
sentence2 ●●○ verb [transitiveT]  
SCTPUNISHif a judge sentences someone who is guilty of a crime, they give them a punishment 〔法官〕判决，宣判，判刑
sentence somebody to something
 Sanchez was sentenced to three years in prison.
桑切斯被判了三年监禁。
Examples from the Corpus
sentence• She returned anyhow, was sentenced but reprieved, and found herself expelled for the fourth time.• Brown will be sentenced for a series of sexual assaults.• The judge said that his was a very serious crime, and sentenced him to eight years in prison.• She is to be sentenced later.• The judge sentenced Margolis to a year in prison.• Green is free on bail until his sentencing on June 27, when he faces up to 25 years in prison.• But worse than that, the man was sentenced to death and was in custody!• 60 prisoners have been sentenced to death in political trials.• He was sentenced to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release.• Tyson was convicted of rape in 1992 and sentenced to six years' imprisonment.• He was found guilty and sentenced to three years' imprisonment.• Some countries will sentence you to seven or more years in prison for drug offences.
sentence somebody to something• She was sentenced to three years in prison.
Origin sentence1
(1200-1300) Old French Latin sententia “feeling, opinion, sentence”, from sentire; → SENTIENT
sen·tence1 noun →COLLOCATIONS1sentence2 verb
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TOEFL BNC: 1168 COCA: 2036
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 1group of words一組詞ADJECTIVE | VERB + SENTENCE | SENTENCE + VERB | SENTENCE + NOUN ADJECTIVE➤long, short長句；短句◇Try to keep your sentences short.盡量使用短句。➤complete, whole完整句子；整句▸➤broken, incomplete支離破碎的／不完整的句子➤full整句◇She was a gifted child and could speak in full sentences at a very young age.她是個有天賦的孩子，很小的時候就能說完整的句子了。➤single一個句子◇The argument can be distilled into a single sentence.這個論點可以用一句話概括。➤grammatical, ungrammatical符合語法的／不符合語法的句子▸➤coherent連貫的句子▸➤affirmative, declarative, negative肯定句；陳述句；否定句▸➤complex, simple複合句；簡單句➤run-on (NAmE) 連寫句➤opening開首語◇the opening sentence of the novel小說開首句◇'Once upon a time...'－the opening sentence to some of our very best-loved fairy tales“從前⋯” － 我們最喜歡的一些童話的開場白➤following接下來的句子◇I came across the following sentence in a paper recently...最近我在報紙上看到了下面的話⋯VERB + SENTENCE➤begin開始句子▸➤finish結束句子◇Peter finished Jane's sentence for her.彼得替簡說完了那句話。➤complete完成句子◇Complete the following sentence: 'I love dictionaries because...'.請完成下面的句子：“我喜愛詞典是因為⋯。”➤end結束句子◇He tells her not to end her sentences with prepositions.他告訴她句尾不要用介詞。➤speak, utter說出／講出句子◇Troy uttered one last sentence.特洛伊說了最後一句話。◇The last sentence was spoken considerably more softly than the others.最後一句話說得比其他話輕柔得多。➤construct, form, formulate, string together, write造句；連成句子；寫句子◇He can barely form a grammatical sentence.他幾乎造不出合乎語法的句子。◇Cooke was so nervous he could barely string a sentence together.庫克緊張得結結巴巴，話不成句。➤parse對句子作句法分析➤punctuate (usually figurative) 斷句◇She punctuated her sentence with a well-aimed kick at his right shin.她說着停了下來，對準他的右腿脛部狠踢了一腳。➤read讀句子◇I kept reading the same sentence over and over again.我一遍又一遍地讀同一個句子。SENTENCE + VERB➤contain sth, have sth句子中包含⋯◇Does the sentence contain an adverb?這個句子中有副詞嗎？SENTENCE + NOUN➤structure句子結構
sentence

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 2punishment given by a judge判刑ADJECTIVE | VERB + SENTENCE | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤maximum, minimum最重／最輕刑罰◇the mandatory minimum sentence (NAmE) 法定最低量刑➤average平均刑期▸➤long, short長期／短期徒刑▸➤harsh, heavy, severe, stiff苛刻的處罰；重判；嚴厲的刑罰▸➤lenient, light寬大的判決；輕判➤reduced減刑◇He turned state's evidence in return for a reduced sentence.他供出了同案犯的犯罪證據以求獲得減刑。➤indeterminate (especially BrE) 不定期刑▸➤appropriate適當的刑罰▸➤mandatory強制性判決◇The judge imposed the mandatory sentence for murder.法官對謀殺罪作出了強制性判決。➤suspended緩刑▸➤jail, prison徒刑；監禁➤criminal刑事判決◇He suggested doubling the criminal sentences for company executives.他建議對公司高管的刑事判決刑期加倍。➤custodial, non-custodial (both BrE) 監禁／非監禁判決▸➤death死刑▸➤life無期徒刑；終身監禁VERB + SENTENCE➤hand down, impose, pass, pronounce作出判決；宣佈判決；宣判◇The judge will pass sentence on the accused this afternoon.法官將於今天下午宣佈對被告的判決。➤be given, get, receive被判刑➤begin (especially BrE) 開始服刑◇He has begun a life sentence for Carol's murder.他因謀殺卡蘿爾被判無期徒刑，已開始服刑。➤serve服刑◇He will have to serve a life sentence.他得服無期徒刑。➤carry out, complete執行判決；服滿刑期◇ex-felons who have completed their sentences刑期已滿的重罪犯➤await (especially BrE) 等候判決◇He spent a week in custody awaiting sentence.等候判決期間他被拘押了一個星期。➤face面臨判決◇She could face a long prison sentence.她可能會被判長期監禁。➤suspend暫緩執行判決▸➤appeal, appeal against (BrE) 對判決提起上訴▸➤review對判決進行複審▸➤commute, reduce減刑◇The death sentence may be commuted to life imprisonment.死刑可能減為無期徒刑。➤overturn, quash (BrE) 推翻／撤銷判決➤uphold維持原判◇The US Supreme Court recently upheld both of these sentences.美國最高法院最近宣佈維持這兩項判決。➤carry受⋯刑罰◇This type of assault carries a maximum sentence of six months in prison.這類人身侵犯罪最長可判 6 個月監禁。PREPOSITION➤sentence for因⋯判處的刑罰◇an eight-year sentence for burglary因入室盜竊被判 8 年徒刑PHRASES➤under sentence of death被判死刑◇He was imprisoned under sentence of death.他被判死刑，身陷囚牢。◇He has been in prison for two months under sentence of death.被判死刑以來他已經入獄兩個月。
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ADVERB | PREPOSITION ADVERB➤hereby特此判決◇I hereby sentence you to death by hanging (= as spoken by a judge).本人特此宣佈對你判處絞刑。➤in absentia缺席判決◇He has been convicted and sentenced in absentia (= he was not present at the trial).他被缺席定罪並判決。PREPOSITION➤for因⋯判罰◇They had been sentenced for murder.他們因謀殺罪被判刑。➤to判處◇He was sentenced to two years in prison.他被判處兩年監禁。◇The judge sentenced her to life imprisonment.法官判處她終身監禁。
TOEFL BNC: 1168 COCA: 2036
sentence verb
⇨ punishsentence noun
⇨ punishment
TOEFL BNC: 1168 COCA: 2036
sentence
Types and forms of word, clause or sentence: accusative, adjunct, allomorph...
Punishment in prison: at his/her Majesty's pleasure, concurrent sentence, confinement...
To punish someone: punish, discipline, penalize...

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