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指控, 起诉的区别sue, indict, prosecute, charge, accuse: 1. sue一般指民事, 是起诉的意思. plantiff(一般是民事案件) 和defendent(既可以是民事也可以是刑事) 是起诉人和被诉人, 原告和被告的意思. prosecute一般是指刑事行为,但也可于民事行为. prosecutor 和 the prosecuted是原告和被告, 仅用于刑事案件. accuse是指控的意思, charge是起诉的意思, 不是法律用词, 属于口语. indict是用于重罪的. prosecution n. I. in criminal law, the government attorney charging and trying the case against a person accused of a crime. II. a common term for the government's side in a criminal case, as in "the prosecution will present five witnesses" or "the prosecution rests" (completed its case). indict [ɪnˈdaɪt] to accuse someone officially of a serious crime. indict someone/something on: The Governor has been indicted on 23 criminal counts including fraud. indict someone for (doing) something: He was indicted for crimes against humanity. indictment [ɪnˈdaɪtmənt] I. [countable] something that shows how bad or wrong something is indictment of: This incident is an indictment of the way the health service is being run. II. [countable/uncountable] legal mainly American an official statement accusing someone of committing a serious crime, or the document with which this is done. 2. A plaintiff, also known as a claimant or complainant, is the term used in some jurisdictions for the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court. By doing so, the plaintiff seeks a legal remedy, and if successful, the court will issue judgment in favor of the plaintiff and make the appropriate court order (e.g., an order for damages). A defendant is a person or entity accused of a crime in criminal prosecution or a person or entity against whom some type of civil relief is being sought in a civil case. Terminology varies from one jurisdiction to another. For example, Scots law does not use the term "defendant"; the terms "accused" or "panel" are used instead in criminal proceedings, and "defender" in civil proceedings. 3. The prosecutor公诉人 is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the civil law inquisitorial system. The prosecution is the legal party responsible for presenting the case in a criminal trial against an individual accused of breaking the law. 4. If someone is indicted, he/she is formally charged with a crime; therefore, someone can have an indictment against him/her. An indictment is a written accusation charging that an individual named therein has committed an act or omitted to do something that is punishable by law. An indictment is found and presented by a Grand Jury legally convened and sworn. It originates with a prosecutor and is issued by the grand jury against an individual who is charged with a crime. Before such individual may be convicted, the charge must be proved at trial Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. The purpose of an indictment is to inform an accused individual of the charge against him or her so that the person will be able to prepare a defense. In the common law legal system, an indictment公诉书, 起诉书(一般是用于重罪的) is a formal accusation that a person has committed a crime. In those jurisdictions which retain the concept of a felony, the serious criminal offence would be a felony; those jurisdictions司法系统 which have abolished the concept of a felony often substitute the concept of an indictable offence, i.e. an offence which requires an indictment. In many (though not all) U.S. jurisdictions retaining the grand jury, prosecutors often have a choice between seeking an indictment from a grand jury, or filing a charging document directly with the court. Such a document is usually called an information, accusation, or complaint, to distinguish it from a grand jury indictment. To protect the suspect's due process ( Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person. Typically, "Due process" means 1) Notice, generally written, but some courts have determined, in rare circumstances, other types of notice suffice. Notice should provide sufficient detail to fully inform the individual of the decision or activity that will have an effect on his/her rights or property or person. 2) right to grieve (that being the right to complain or to disagree with the governmental actor/entity that has decision making authority) and 3) the right to appeal if not satisfied with the outcome of the grievance procedure. Due process balances the power of law of the land and protects the individual person from it. When a government harms a person without following the exact course of the law, this constitutes a due-process violation, which offends against the rule of law.) rights in felony cases (where the suspect's interest in liberty is at stake), there is usually a preliminary hearing where a judge determines if there was probable cause to arrest the suspect in custody. If the judge finds such probable cause, he or she will bind or hold over the suspect for trial. The substance of an indictment or other charging instrument is usually the same, regardless of the jurisdiction: it consists of a short and plain statement of the time, place and manner in which the defendant is alleged to have committed the offense. Each offense is usually set out in a separate count. Some indictments for complex crimes, particularly those involving conspiracy or numerous counts, can run to hundreds of pages, but many indictments, even for crimes as serious as murder, consist of a single sheet of paper. Indictable offenses are normally tried by jury, unless the accused waives the right to a jury trial. The Sixth Amendment mandates the right of having a jury trial for any criminal prosecution. Notwithstanding the existence of the right to jury trial, the vast majority of criminal cases in the U.S. are resolved by the plea bargaining ( A plea bargain (also plea agreement, plea deal or copping a plea) is an agreement in a criminal case between the prosecutor and defendant whereby the defendant agrees to plead guilty to a particular charge in return for some concession from the prosecutor. This may mean that the defendant will plead guilty to a less serious charge, or to one of several charges, in return for the dismissal of other charges; or it may mean that the defendant will plead guilty to the original criminal charge in return for a more lenient sentence. A plea bargain allows both parties to avoid a lengthy criminal trial and may allow criminal defendants to avoid the risk of conviction at trial on a more serious charge.) process. 5. To sue someone is to start legal proceedings against another. In America, some court proceedings (i.e. Small Claims Court) do not require lawyers; therefore, someone can be sued by another. The people in this kind of proceeding are known as plaintiffs (the complainant or accuser) and defendants (the accused). Sueing usually refers to civil as opposed to criminal lawsuits. The person being sued in a civil suit is more normally referred to as the wrongdoer. Criminal suits are usually brought for wrongs to society. Civil suits are usually brought for wrong to an individual or a business.
Because stuff you就是想弄你, that's why: German driver refuses to let fire truck pass: The driver of a small car in Germany has been filmed going to no lengths 完全无视, 不作为 to let a blaring fire truck pass at a red light. We've all experienced some head-scratching 让人挠头不已的 moments on the road, but this is on another level. A video has emerged from Germany showing a fire truck roaring up a busy street, sirens wailing, only to be halted, first by a red light, and then a driver who steadfastly 坚定的, 坚决的 refuses to make way. It's hard to believe the stubborn-as-a-mule commuter was oblivious 没意识到 to the truck, given the deafening 震耳欲聋的 sound of the sirens, so the reason for the refusal to move can be assumed to be only out of spite怨气, 怨恨, 怨怒( spite a feeling of wanting to upset someone or cause problems for them, especially because you think something is unfair. a candidate motivated by political spite. out of spite: She refused out of spite. in spite of something used for referring to a fact that makes something else surprising. In spite of feeling tired, we decided to go out. a sweet smile in spite of all her problems. in spite of the fact that: The house will certainly sell, in spite of the fact that it's overpriced. in spite of yourself 尽管不情愿, 心不甘情不愿, 并非甘愿 if you do something in spite of yourself, you do it even though you did not want or plan to do it. I think she had a good time in spite of herself. cut off your nose to spite your face 两败俱伤 informal to do something that is intended to harm someone even though you know that it will harm you too.). It's unknown whether the driver was breaking the law in holding up the truck.
2014预算案之争: 1. Petrol tax shock to leave voters fuming大怒, 大为光火(征税的动词是collect, impose, levy, introduce)(to feel or show a lot of anger. Motorists are fuming over the latest petrol shortages.): Motorists will pay more for fuel in future and it looks set to keep rising as Prime Minister Tony Abbott prepares to break his no "new taxes" promise for a second time – this time by taxing petrol at a higher rate. The plan, which the government refused to officially confirm, compounds another tax increase to be announced in the budget – a special deficit levy on higher income earners designed to raise about $2.5 billion a year for its duration. It is directed at redressing ( redress n. something that you do for someone or money that you give to them as a way of improving a bad situation that you are responsible for. Employees with complaints may seek redress through the courts. v. to improve a bad situation that you are responsible for by doing something for someone or by giving them money. We want to redress some of the injustices of the past. redress the balance to change a situation in order to make things fair and equal. ) a budget hitting lower income earners more than the rich, but the political pain may not be worth it and it could be superseded ( supersede [ˌsu:pə(r)ˈsi:d] 取代 if one thing supersedes another, it replaces the other thing, especially because it is more modern or more useful. Steam trains were gradually superseded by diesel engines. The Chemical Weapons Convention supersedes all earlier agreements.) by the incendiary ( incendiary [inˈsendiəri] adj. I. designed for the purpose of causing a fire. an incendiary device/bomb. II. 讨骂的, 招致非议的. Inflammatory, emotionally charged. likely to cause anger or violence. incendiary statements. Politics is an incendiary topic; it tends to cause fights to break out. n. I. Something capable of causing fire, particularly a weapon. The military used incendiaries to destroy the building. Fortunately, the fire didn't spread. II. One who maliciously sets fires; an arsonist. III. (figuratively) One who excites or inflames factions into quarrels; an agitator. ) issue of fuel prices. The twice-yearly adjustment to petrol would be especially hard on families in the outer suburbs whose lives are slave to the car ( be a slave to/of something to be influenced or controlled too much by something. a slave to drugs and alcohol. a slave of fashion. ), whose jobs depend on long daily commutes, and who often have no access to public transport. It is understood the budget – which is now all but finalised and heading to the official printer – contains changes to restore indexation of federal petrol excise消费税 according to inflation, adding up to 4¢ or 5¢ a litre within four years, which would be on top of the other factors that have been driving petrol prices up. Even before the petrol increase had surfaced, the deficit tax had some economists and Liberal MPs, and former Liberal treasurer Peter Costello, arguing it would harm growth by reducing consumers' spending power购买力, 消费力. Disgruntled Liberals also believe the special deficit levy represents a blatant 大胆无耻的 breach of an oft-made promise of no new or increased taxes, and, of no surprises. The Australian Automobile Association (AAA) says the return to using the consumer price index to upwardly adjust the per-litre amount of federal excise would add about 0.6 of a cent per litre in 2014-15 for a modest initial return of $339 million to Canberra. However, that revenue would climb exponentially as the price rises 3.5¢ to 4¢ a litre in 2017-18, raising $1600 million in that year, or $3.7 billion over the first four years. Federal excise was frozen at 38.14¢ a litre by John Howard in 2001 as anxiety over the introduction of his 10 per cent goods and services tax threatened to boil over and sink his government during that election year. Facing a difficult byelection, the then prime minister cut fuel excise by 1.5¢ and then froze it in perpetuity at the 38¢ rate. That move was bitterly contested by his senior economic ministers at the time, including Mr Costello, who knew it would cause fuel excise revenue to dwindle against the rising per-litre cost of petrol. Federal revenue is about $5 billion lower than it would have been had indexation remained, but petrol has been cheaper too. Along with the cuts in family payments, taking the eligibility cut-off from $150,000 down to $100,000 per annum, the rise in petrol prices represents a double hit双重打击 on lower and middle-income earners and many who switched to the Coalition at the election on the promise of lower taxes, and taking the pressure off working families. AAA executive director Andrew McKellar said the tax increase would be "grossly unfair" and that voters would be left deeply cynical about ( I. 愤世嫉俗的. someone who is cynical believes that people care only about themselves and are not sincere or honest. II. 抱持怀疑态度的. someone who is cynical expects things not to be successful or useful. cynical about: I know that some of you are very cynical about the proposals. III. willing to let other people be harmed so that you can get an advantage. Democrats said it was a cynical attempt to smear the President's reputation. ) the government. "I think the reality is that this would be a grossly unfair tax grab," he said. "We're seeing a total of about $15 billion being raised through fuel excise each year, but only a small proportion of that, about less than a quarter, ends up getting reinvested in roads and other land-transport infrastructure. "Any tax increase like this is going to hit those who are living in the outer part of our cities, in our rural and regional areas, it's going to hit them the hardest重创, 沉重打击 because they have to drive the longest distances and in many cases, they don't have any choice." The petrol shock in the budget appears to explain an ominous prediction made to Fairfax Media this week by a federal minister, who said the controversial deficit levy would be "one of the more popular" aspects of next Tuesday's economic statement. Treasurer Joe Hockey said this week he believed the government was not breaking promises on tax because it had taken a plan to the election to increase taxes on companies to fund its paid parental leave scheme. "We went to the last election promising to introduce a levy for PPL, so claims 说法 that we said we would never introduce new taxes are just wrong," he said. Mr Hockey also predicted the debt levy would be hardly discussed on budget night, given the weight of other measures aimed at restoring the government's finances back to health. 2. 关于打击: take/have a knock 遭遇打击, 影响巨大, 大受打击, 深受打击 to be badly affected by something. to be damaged because of a bad experience: Her confidence took a hard knock when her application was rejected. His reputation has taken quite a knock following the revelations published in his recent biography. a death blow 致命打击 I. an action or an event which causes something to end or fail (usually + to ). A stroke or blow that causes death. the blow that kills (usually mercifully). This renewed outbreak of fighting has been seen as a death blow to any chance for peace. The scandal dealt a death blow to (= ended) his political ambitions. II. A destructive event or occurrence: dealt a deathblow to our hopes. deal/give something a death blow to take an action that causes something to end or fail. New attacks dealt a death blow to the peace talks. knock/lick/whip something/somebody into shape to improve the condition of something or the condition or behaviour of someone The prime minister's main aim is to knock the economy into shape. Little Sean is a bit wild but the teachers'll soon lick him into shape when he starts school. knock someone down 撞倒 to hit or push someone, especially accidentally, so that he or she falls to the ground: I saw that bike rider knock a lady down. knock down/over I. British to hit someone with a vehicle so that they are injured or killed. Sue was knocked down just yards from her home. II. to deliberately destroy a building or wall. The far wall could be knocked down to make the room bigger. III. informal to reduce a price or amount. They knocked the price of beer down over 20p a pint to £1.45. IV. 打倒, 击溃. to show that something such as an idea or suggestion is not good or useful. It was a theory that was easily knocked down. knock someone down to persuade someone to reduce the price of something. I managed to knock him down to £120. knock someone out I. Lit. to knock someone unconscious. (Someone includes oneself.) Fred knocked Mike out and left him there in the gutter. Fred knocked out Mike. II. Fig. to make someone unconsciousness. to hit someone so that they become unconscious. His fall from the ladder knocked him out. The drug knocked her out quickly. The powerful medicine knocked out the patient. III. Fig. to surprise or please someone. I have some news that will really knock you out. IV. Fig. 筋疲力尽 to wear someone out; to exhaust someone. to make someone very tired Pat has really knocked herself out cooking this dinner. All that shopping has knocked me out! All that exercise really knocked me out. The day's activities knocked the kids out and they went right to bed. V. to remove someone from a competition A loss in today's game will knock us out of the playoffs. VI. to cause someone to go to sleep I didn't realize those pills would knock me out. knock something out I. to create something hastily. He knocked a few out as samples. He knocked out a few of them quickly, just so we could see what they were going to look like. II. Fig. to put something out of order; to make something inoperable. The storm knocked the telephone system out. The high winds will probably knock out electrical service all over town. 3. There's a well-worn 经久不衰的 joke ( used many times. well-worn clothing. a well-worn phrase/excuse. ) about a lost traveller standing at a crossroads and asking a grizzled ( a grizzled person has grey hair and looks old. a. grizzled hair is grey or partly grey. ) old Irishman for directions. "To be sure," the Irishman replies. "I wouldn't start from here." Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann established the National Commission of Audit to give directions on more sensible, structured and sustainable Commonwealth and federal-funded programs and services. But if the commission's report is the starting point to a better healthcare future, like the Irishman I wouldn't start from here either. Overall, an unavoidable impression is that the commission, headed by then-Business Council of Australia chairman Tony Shepherd, didn't fully grasp Australia's complex, often economically irrational, and, above all, highly political healthcare infrastructure. Rather than do much original policy thinking, it sought largely to put its own stamp on ( To put your stamp on something 放上自己的烙印 means to change or make it something you like better or something unique to you or to suit your own desires or ideas. And interesting research by Adam Grant at the Wharton School has found that introverted leaders often deliver better outcomes than extroverts do, because when they are managing proactive emloyees run with their ideas, whereas an extrovert can, quite unwittingly, get so excited about things that they are putting their own stamp on things, and other people's ideas might not as easily then bubble up to the surface. The paragraph above shows that introverts (shy people） don't overpower their staff and therefore the staff ideas come through more. An extrovert (outgoing, maybe outspoken person) might overpower or influence the staff so much that the leaders ideas overcome ideas from the staff. stamp on someone or something to strike down hard on someone or something with the bottom of the foot. The attacker stamped on his victim after he had knocked him down. Walter stamped on a spider. The attendant stamped a date upon each person who entered the dance hall. The person at the door stamped something on my hand when I came in. stamp something out 捣毁, 消灭掉 to stop or destroy something How long have we been trying to stamp out drugs? Everyone enjoys these games, although some people want to stamp them out. rubber-stamp something if someone rubber-stamps a decision or a plan, they give it official approval, often without thinking about it enough. Usage notes: If someone official has examined a document, they often put a special mark on it using a rubber stamp (= a small printing device made of rubber). School governors will not simply rubber-stamp what teachers have already decided. The court was asked to rubber-stamp the Department's decision to free the men. somebody's stamping/stomping ground a place where you regularly spend a lot of time I spent an afternoon in Camden, my old stomping ground. ) policy debates already under way, including Medicare co-payments; widening the roles of private health insurance and health professionals other than doctors in primary care; and improving federal-state and public-private co-ordination of effort. The commission's narrative attempts to connect the dots between various elements of the Australian healthcare picture – public and private, federal and state, and acute, primary and preventive care. In doing so, however, it misses the reality that 忽略了事实 the Australian healthcare system is not a system at all. Instead, there's a tangle of loose and fractious associations of providers, funders and consumers, all competing aggressively for resources and dominance, all believing they know best and those wearing white clinical coats, typified by the Australian Medical Association and Pharmacy Guild of Australia, bully anyone who opposes their agendas. 4. Treasurer Joe Hockey says he does not care about personal criticism that he is out of touch with the Australian community, declaring he is just presenting facts 陈述事实, 表述事实 about poor people's use of cars. Coalition backbenchers and the Opposition have taken Mr Hockey to task after he claimed poorer Australians would not be hit by increases to the fuel tax because "the poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far in many cases". Mr Hockey wants to end the 13-year freeze on the indexation ( Indexation指数调整 is a technique to adjust income payments by means of a price index, in order to maintain the purchasing power of the public after inflation, while Deindexation refers to the unwinding of indexation. ) of the fuel excise(n. [ˈeksaɪz] 消费税. a tax that a government charges on services used and goods sold inside its country. v. [ɪkˈsaɪz] I. medical 阉割掉. 剔除. 割掉. to remove something harmful that is growing inside a person's body, especially by cutting it out. excised the tumor; II. formal to remove part of a book or film, for example because it is considered offensive. excised two scenes from the film. Customs and Excise: the former name for the British government department responsible for collecting taxes on goods that are bought or sold or brought into the country. It became part of hmrc in 2005, but people still use the old name in unofficial contexts. ), saying it would raise more than $2 billion over four years which would be spent on roads. "The Australian Bureau of Statistics data is not something that I've concocted ( [kənˈkokt] I. 编造. to invent a false explanation or false information, especially for a dishonest purpose. II. to produce something unusual by mixing things in a new way, especially a drink or meal. ), it is the reality. These are dealing with the facts." Yesterday, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten seized on Mr Hockey's comments as evidence the Government is out of touch and "remarkably arrogant", describing the Treasurer as the "Foghorn Leghorn ( Foghorn J. Leghorn is an American character that appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons for Warner Bros. Pictures. A leghorn is a breed of chicken, and foghorn describes the character's loud, overbearing voice. According to Leonard Maltin the character's voice was also patterned after a hard-of-hearing ( Hearing loss, deafness, hard of hearing, anacusis, hearing impairment 听障 (a term considered derogatory by many in the community), is a partial or total inability to hear. In children it may affect the development of language and can cause work related difficulties for adults.) West Coast-only radio character from the 1930s, known simply as The Sheriff, on a radio program called Blue Monday Jamboree.The voice has similarities to that of another Mel Blanc voice: Yosemite Sam (a strictly Friz Freleng character). Foghorn Leghorn is a large, white adult Leghorn rooster with a stereotypically Southern accent, a "good ol' boy" speaking style, and a penchant for mischief极爱恶作剧. The first half of his name is a joke about him being loud and obnoxious, while the second half refers to a breed of chicken (a white leghorn). ) of Australian politics". Today Mr Hockey said Mr Shorten was a "complete hypocrite". "The Labor Party is always going to run this personality 人身攻击 politics. Good luck to them. Others will join in," he said. "I don't care about that commentary, I care about dealing with the facts and ensuring that we have a strong economy." "Treasurers cop a lot of flak however they are going, but in some of the points he has been making he been right to make them," he said. "Let's face it, the Labor Party are absolutely opposed to 反对 absolutely everything that he does whether it is good bad or otherwise, whatever you might think of it." Nationals senator John Williams has contradicted the Treasurer's argument on the fuel excise, saying people in the bush pay more. "Regional Australians don't have the alternative of public transport or other means of getting there," he said. "And unfortunately increases in fuel excises will impact more heavily on those who don't have an alternative." He said he did not know if there is an easy way to sell the excise increase to the public. "Look I really don't know if there is a good way of getting across an increase on what people pay by way of a fuel levy," he said. "However, I guess we are in a position of having to fix the budget. Labor ruined it and the responsibility and some unpopularity for what you do is a burden we have to bear不得不承担的重担 because we were elected to do it."
