PTE的Write essay和阅读题目多次涉及到过法律相关话题，这方面词汇比较弱的同学，可要注意加强积累哦！总结一下法律/犯罪类常用单词，分成了几个小部分，各位同学，快快来看看你能不能看懂吧~立法者：legislator；立法：legislation, lawmaking；警员: police officer；警长: police sergeant；检察官: procurator；法官：judge；法律助理: legal assistant；律师: attorney/lawyer；法律职员: law clerk；法庭记者: court reporter；(法律)顾问: counsellor；e.g. Counsellors are professionals who talk to you about issues in your life, and help solve them.人权律师：human-rights lawyer；宪法: constitution；刑法典: penal code；刑事/民事案件：criminal/civil case；民事行为能力: civil capability；民事诉讼法: civil procedural law；修正案：amendment；罪名/指控：accusation；e.g. He was exonerated from the accusation of cheating.他被免除了作弊的指控。犯罪/违反法律: commit a crime ,break the law, law breaking, violate the law, against the law；守法: abide by the law, comply, compliance with the law, conform. to the law, abidance by law, keep the law；e.g. Above all, everyone must abide by the law.每个人都应该遵守法律。滥用法律: abuse of law, stretch the law；e.g. The government is paying close attention to abuseoflaw and trying to put an end to it.政府密切关注并试图终止任何滥用法律的情况。
监狱/关押: jail, prison, imprisonment, imprison, incarcerate, lock up；死刑: capital punishment, death penalty, death sentence, sentence to death；无期徒刑: life sentence, life imprisonment, lifelong punishment；注射死刑：lethal injection；e.g. Indeed, many of those within America's massive death row system survive the mental torture of years facing gruesome death in a lethal injection chamber by turning to God. 实际上，美国行刑系统里众多的待刑之人，面对将要在行刑室里接受注射死刑这一毛骨悚然的死亡方式，他们靠信仰上帝来熬过长年的精神折磨。废除死刑：abolition of the death penalty；威慑力: deterrent；e.g. People who are against abolitionofthedeathpenalty seriously believe that capital punishment is a deterrentto criminals.反对废除死刑的人们坚信死刑是对犯罪分子的一种威慑。受害者/伤亡人员: victim, casualty；无辜的: innocent, harmless；同情的的: sympathetic；开明的: enlightened；文明的: civilized；残忍的: cruel, brutal, merciless, inhumane；仁慈的，宽大的: lenient, merciful;e.g. The judge was lenient with the wrongdoer.法官对这个犯人很宽大。人道的: humane；e.g. This organization began to campaign for humane treatment of prisoners.这个组织发起了为囚犯争取人道待遇的运动。
逮捕: arrest, apprehend；嫌疑犯：suspect；罪犯: criminal, law offender, law breaker, law violator, villain, vermin, convict；职业罪犯: career criminal;集团犯罪: organized crime;帮派/黑帮：gang；歹徒/恶棍：gangster；黑社会：gangsterdom/gangdom；牧师：Chaplain；暴力犯罪：violent crime；武装抢劫: armed robbery ;非法闯入: break-in;窃听: bug;纵火: arson;杀人犯：murderer;入室盗窃: burglary;虐待儿童: child abuse;***犯:rapist;劫持: hijack;e.g. Two men tried to hijack a plane on a flight from LA to Chicago.两名男子试图劫持一架从洛杉矶飞往芝加哥的飞机。凶杀：homicide；白领犯罪: white-collar crime;敲诈勒索: blackmail;诽谤/污蔑：slander, libel, defame;贪污/挪用公款：corruption，embezzlement;反诉：counter charge;e.g. Mr White counter charged Mr Smith withslander.怀特先生反诉史密斯先生诽谤。伪造: counterfeit, forge;e.g. This painting is not authentic, I’m afraid. It is a delicate forgery.恐怕这幅画是假的，这是个赝品。赌博: gamble;贩卖违禁品: bootlegging;行贿受贿: bribery;扒手: pickpocket;逃税: tax evasion;流动人口: floating population；失业问题: unemployment problem；城市贫困问题: urban poverty issue；滥用药物/吸食毒品: drug abusing，drug taking；性犯罪: sex crimes；弱势群体: vulnerable groups/ disadvantaged groups；异常群体: outliers；自杀: suicide；精神疾病: mental disease；离经叛道者: deviant；改造/复原: rehabilitate；e.g. A number of techniques are now being used by psychologists in the rehabilitation of young offenders.一些技术现正被心理学家们用于青少年罪犯的改造。 |
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