reprieve

reprieve[ri'pri:v]

• vt.
  • 缓刑(尤指缓期执行死刑)：

    The prisoner condemned to death was reprieved for two years.

    判死刑的罪犯被缓刑两年执行。

  • 暂减(痛苦、烦恼等)；暂时缓解：

    Our school has been reprieved from insufficient financial resources.

    我们学校财力不足的困境现已暂时得到缓解。

• n.
  • (尤指死刑的)缓刑
  • 缓刑令
  • (痛苦、烦恼等的)缓解，暂缓
• 变形:

  vt.reprieved.reprieving

• heptachords
• hyperfunction
• age-area hypothesis
• fight your way (through / past etc sb / sth)
• Universal Postal Union
• ethynylation
• percipiency
• go to blazes
• barycentral dynamical time
• high-hat cymbals
• be the perfection of
• peacockish
• dysuric
• Phycitinae
• perceptibly
• what's
• slot winding
• yellow warblers
• overbuilding
• lead monoxide
• chicken soups
• storm and stress
• halogen lamp
• gear sth to/towards sth
• R.I.P.
• dissatisfy with
• sannaite
• ciceronage
• strike alarm into
• metricates
• acknowledge the corn
• attention key
• make oneself useful
• english setters
• keep ... going
• house painters
• drupe
• make a profit on
• gutta-percha
• tie-up
• wean sb off / from
• Welsh corgis
• dispassionate
• vapor-pressure osmometer
• get a packet
• czarevitch
• physicianship
• bus location system
• keep a good table
• mainline
• champacs
• whole-coloured
• sottishnesses
• parcelling
• gaboons
• Stokes lines
• straighten out /up
• skim coat
• capriccio
• lunular
• mlrs
• spd.
• crystal headphones
• blind copies
• touchdown
• downbows
• clamshell blister packaging
• the sooner (…) the better
• pluggers
• legal action / proceedings
• put in for leave
• voltaic cell
• in good set terms
• MDMS
• cassiopeias
• grandchildrens
• orchiectomy
• name-dropper
• deep water s
• Shahaptian
• psephologist
• answering services
• arnimite
• matriculates
• Tommaselli's disease
• bowfins
• telegraphone
• tubbiest
• black mood
• rubbling
• sudsing
• goony bird
• stipo
• bandmasters
• cram something down someone's throat
• bury the hatchet / bury your differences
• mattamore
• allod
• out of order
• obboes