criminal

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释义

n. 罪犯

adj. 刑事的；犯罪的；罪恶的

词态变化

复数: criminals;比较级: more criminal;最高级: most criminal;

近义词

villain knave blackguard bad scoundrel guy

中文词源

criminal 罪犯

来自crime, 犯罪。

英文词源

criminal (adj.): early 15c., from Middle French criminel (11c.), from Latin criminalis "pertaining to crime," from crimen (genitive criminis); see crime. Preserves the Latin -n-. Criminal law (or criminal justice) distinguished from civil in English at least since late 15c.
criminal (n.): 1620s, from criminal (adj.).

双语例句

1. Too bad he used his intelligence for criminal purposes.: 他把聪明都用在了犯罪上，太可惜了。

2. Northbridge is a cool, calculating and clever criminal who could strike again.: 诺思布里奇是个头脑冷静、诡计多端、阴险狡诈的罪犯，他可能还会犯案。

3. They would be sacked for criminal or scandalous behaviour.: 若有犯罪或不道德的行为，他们就会被解雇。

4. Within criminal law almost anything could be defined as "crime".: 在刑法中，几乎任何行为都可以被界定为“犯罪”。

5. Apart from criminal investigation techniques, students learn forensic medicine, philosophy and logic.: 除罪案调查技巧外，学生们还要学习法医学、哲学和逻辑学。

英英释意

1. someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime

实用场景例句

Society does not know how to deal with hardened criminals (= people who regularly commit crimes and are not sorry for what they do) .: 社会不知道怎样处置惯犯。

(especially North American English)a career criminal: 职业罪犯

This is a criminal waste of resources.: 这是一种浪费资源的可耻行为。

to bring criminal charges against sb: 对某人提起刑事诉讼

criminal offences/behaviour: 刑事犯罪；犯罪行为

criminal damage (= the crime of damaging sb's property deliberately): 刑事损害

criminal negligence (= the illegal act of sb failing to do sth that they should do, with the result that sb else is harmed): 过失犯罪

criminal law: 刑法

the criminal justice system: 刑事审判制度

a criminal lawyer: 刑事诉讼律师

He said a full-scale dispute involving strikes would be criminal.: 他说如果出现罢工等大规模纠纷那将是极不应该的。

At 17, he had a criminal record for petty theft...: 他17岁就有了小偷小摸的犯罪前科。

A group of gunmen attacked a prison and set free nine criminals in Moroto.: 一伙持枪歹徒袭击了莫罗托的一所监狱，放走了9名罪犯。

Her husband faces various criminal charges...: 她丈夫面临多项犯罪指控。

The government pardoned the criminal.: 政府赦免了那个罪犯.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.: 我的生活因其本身而存在而不是为向他人展示而存在.

The criminal pushed a pedestrian down and ran away.: 罪犯推倒了一个行人逃跑了.

The judge clapped the criminal in prison.: 法官把犯人投入狱中.

The police kept the criminal under strict surveillance.: 警察严密监视那个罪犯.

The police used dogs to track the criminal.: 警察用警犬来追踪罪犯.

I was so sorry to hear that your son had been traveling with those criminal types.: 听说你的儿子一直与那些罪犯同流合污,为此我感到很难过.

His negligence was nothing less than criminal.: 他的粗心大意无异于犯罪.

The criminal was hanged.: 那个罪犯被绞死.

The criminal cheated the law by suicide.: 罪犯以自杀逃脱法律制裁.

The criminal outwitted the police and escaped.: 那罪犯耍花招瞒过了警察,逃跑了.

The criminal knew that he could not talk to the police about his friends; if he did, someone would stop his breath.: 罪犯知道他不能向警察谈及他那些朋友, 如果他说了, 有人会把他杀了.

A criminal gang terrorized the neighbourhood.: 匪徒使附近地区人心惶惶.

After hiding in the woods for weeks, the criminal gave himself up.: 该罪犯在森林里躲了几个星期以后自首了.

考试真题

The odds of a criminal using technical means to bypass a security system are so small that the FBI doesn't even track those statistics.

To ensure that people with a criminal record live a decent life.

To create opportunities for criminals to reform themselves.

To appeal for changes in America's criminal justice system.

Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?These laws are also counterproductive, since they make it harder for people with criminal records to find housing or land a job, two key factors that reduce backsliding.

Rather, it is to recognize that in America's vast criminal justice system, second chances are crucial.

At least 65 million people in the United States have a criminal record.

Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals? In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?.

Store employees looked at me like I'm some kind of hardened criminal.

Dog-fighting victims are tortured and killed for profit and "sport," yet their criminal abusers often receive a 28 minimal sentence for causing a lifetime of pain.

These laws are also counterproductive, since they make it harder for people with criminal records to find housing or land a job, two key factors that reduce backsliding.

When someone commits a criminal act, we always hope the punishment will match the offense.

Parents are concerned that their children may get involved in criminal offences once they reach their teens.

In contrast, the criminal justice system accounted for nearly one out of every five visual backgrounds.

Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child’s low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

Scientists have devised a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murdervictims.

Reporting criminal offenses in Greenville.

And they were more likely to have a criminal record and to be raising a child as a single parent on a very low income.

Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child's low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

The barefoot kid who just a few years previously had been living in poverty, surrounded by criminals and violence, had written a new chapter in the history of sports.

The dark cloud above one of the world's toughest criminal neighbourhoods simply disappeared for a few days.

The court’s ruling is legally sound in defining a kind of favoritism that is not criminal.

In Oliver Twist, e traces an orphan’s progress from the workhouse to the criminal slums of London.

In Oliver Twist, he traces an orphan's progress from the workhouse to the criminal slums of London.

The court's ruling is legally sound in defining a kind of favoritism that is not criminal.

同义词辨析

criminal, guilty

这两个形容词均表示"犯罪的"之意。

criminal：侧重指某种行为是违犯法律的，因而应受到惩罚。

guilty：主要指某种行为违反道德标准，也可指违犯法律。

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