1·She confessed her astonishment at her light sentence when her father visited her at the jail.
她父亲去牢里探望她的时候,她承认自己对于受到从轻判决感到吃惊。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·He was convicted of assaulting a police officer but he got off with a light sentence.
他被定了个殴打警察罪,然而却得到从轻判处。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·The compassionate judge gave the young offender a light sentence.
慈悲的法官从轻判处了那个年轻的罪犯。
4·If so light sentence, why should the enterprise throw many capital to make promotion?
要是那么轻易的话,为什么企业都要投入大量的资金去做推广?
5·The court accused the doctor of the deliberately putting the patient to death but only imposed a light sentence on him.
虽然法院指控那名医生故意将病人致死,却对他从轻判处了。
6·People are afraid that other victims may do the same to their molesters if Aaron gets a light sentence or if he gets off in any way.
人们担心,如果Aaron被轻判和以任何方式获得原谅,其他受害者也会对他们的骚扰者采取同样的行动。
7·In asking for a light sentence, his lawyer cited a letter written by his sister, recounting their unhappy childhood at the hands of alcoholic parents.
在请求从轻判决的时候,他的律师列举了他姐姐写的一封信,叙述了他们不幸童年时代是由酗酒的父母掌控着。
8·Their concerns were heightened after a relative light sentence was handed down to Trevor Middleton, the man convicted of racially motivated assaults.
在亚裔垂钓客遇袭案中以种族袭击罪定罪的Trevor Middleton受到相对较轻的刑期后,社区人士的这种怀疑和担心加剧。
9·But that does not shed much light on the reasonableness of the sentence Mr. Skilling should receive.
但这并不能表示斯奇林受到的判决就是理性的。
10·That conviction contributed to the murder charge, because in the light of it, Mr Thompson was advised not to testify in court; and, eventually, that led to a capital sentence.
这项定罪促成了后来的谋杀指控,因为在该罪名下,汤普森先生未能出庭作证,最终被判死刑。