Six months after turning myself into the police, the court let me go free with no charges, no record or jail sentence.
在我自首6个月后,法庭释放了我,没有任何控告,记录或是判决。
But witnesses often lie in court. Potential penalties of a fine or jail time do not completely suppress false testimony.
但证人却常常在庭上说谎话,即使会被罚款或入狱,仍不能完全杜绝假见证。
Until then, he said, he and many of his countrymen will carry on living and working on the margins of the law — and no amount of fines, seizures or jail time will dissuade them.
到那个时候,他表示,他和他的很多同胞将继续靠打法律的擦边球谋生,即使是罚金、扣押和监禁时间也不能阻止他们。
Criminals are given the option of going to jail or facing public humiliation.
罪犯们被给予进监狱或面对公众羞辱的选择权。
Instead of ending up in jail or in the gutter he was remarkably successful.
他最后不但没有坐牢或流落贫民窟,反而还非常成功。
The judge decides whether the suspect should be kept in jail or released.
由法官决定应该把嫌疑犯关进监狱还是释放他。
Starr's people had offered to keep her out of jail if she gave them information implicating Hillary or me in some illegal activity.
斯塔尔的人曾答应不会让她蹲监狱,条件是她提供一些牵扯到我和希拉里的某种非法活动的情况。
Some 100 members of the last parliament are now either in jail or on the run.
大约有100名上届议会成员现在要么在监狱中要么在跑路。
This might mean more drug treatment or parenting classes, or home detention with a GPS monitor strapped around the ankle, or “flash incarceration” in jail for a few days.
这可能意味着需要更多的药物治疗或更高级别的监护,还可以通过在脚踝上绑上GPSj监控器来进行家庭关押,或者在看守所实行为期数天的“短期监禁”。
The defendants say they will appeal, and do not have to pay up or go to jail until those efforts are exhausted.
被告称他们将提起上诉,在这些努力失败之前,他们不会支付索赔或者面临牢狱之灾。
Among them is the coyly named protection of information bill, under which journalists (and others) could face up to 25 years in jail for possessing or publishing classified state information.
这些措施中的一条就是所谓的信息保护法案,记者(和其他人)可能因为拥有或发布国家机密,而面临最多25年的牢狱之灾。
One or two nights she phoned and I had to bail her out of jail for drunkenness and fighting.
还有一两个晚上她打来电话,我要把醉酒滋事入狱的她保释出来。
Having failed to pay their child support, they were given the choice by a judge to go to jail or attend a weekly class on fathering, which to them seemed the better deal.
由于无法给予他们的孩子以支持,法官给了他们两个选择,要么去坐牢,要么参加每周课程,学习做父亲,后者似乎对他们更划算一些。
In the North, a magistrate might have imposed a fine or a brief jail sentence for aiding those escaping.
在北方,治安官会对帮助逃亡的人课以罚金,或判以短期监禁。
Putting Mr Khodorkovsky in jail, or awarding a large contract to one's own affiliated company, could be justified as a public good.
将霍尔·科夫斯基打入大牢,或将一笔大单授予某人的附属公司,可被称作为公益服务而获得正当性。
That one could get him 20 years in jail, regardless of whether the fox admits or denies his responsibility in this particular henhouse.
不管这只“狐狸”是否承认他在纳斯达克这个“鸡窝”中应当承担的责任,仅凭此项指控,他就得在大牢里坐上20年。
IT DOESN'T alwayspay to dress up for a party in Nigeria:it may earn you a hefty fine or even a stint in jail.
在尼日利亚,穿着打扮去参加一场聚会并不总是划算的:它也许意味着给你挣来一笔巨额罚金甚或是被投进监狱。
In the Southern states, whites were sentenced to months or even years in jail.
在南方各州,白人则被判处几个月甚至几年的监禁。
If the ruling is allowed to stand, however, it is sure to put Mr Correa's critics on notice that expressing their objections too forcefully could put them out of business or send them to jail.
如果该判决被接受,对科雷亚的批评者势必会引起注意:过激表达反对意见很可能会使他们丢掉饭碗或面临牢狱之灾。
If the ruling is allowed to stand, however, it is sure to put Mr Correa's critics on notice that expressing their objections too forcefully could put them out of business or send them to jail.
如果该判决被接受,对科雷亚的批评者势必会引起注意:过激表达反对意见很可能会使他们丢掉饭碗或面临牢狱之灾。
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