They tried to have Tom arrested on a trumped up charge.

他们企图以莫须有的罪名把汤姆抓起来。

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She was arrested on a trumped-up charge.

她以莫须有的罪名被捕。

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The emperor trumped up a charge against him and confiscates all his property.

皇上虚构了一项罪名给他，并且没收了他的所有财产。

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In June, Mr Gusinsky spent three days in prison (on a trumped-up firearms charge) and was freed only when he agreed to sell a large stake in Media-Most to Gazprom a deal personally endorsed by the media minister.

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One of the black marks against him is a sentence for bank fraud in Jordan, handed down to him in his absence a charge he says was trumped up.

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