Firstly, they divided the country into shires, with shire courts and shire reeves, or sheriffs, responsible for administering law.

首先，他们把国家划分为郡，郡法庭和郡法官、或行政司法长官负责执法。

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According to local sheriffs, he often slips into a house just to soak in a hot bath or steal mint-chip ice cream from the fridge.

根据当地治安官的说法，他经常潜入一所房子，只是为了泡个热水澡，或者从冰箱里偷薄荷冰淇淋。

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Unlike many of the men they oversee, the new sheriffs of Wall Street never aspired to eight-figure compensation packages or corporate suites.

与她们监督的很多男性不同，华尔街的新长官们从未渴望获得八位数的补偿方案或企业套房。

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Georgia's sheriffs complain that they have been given no extra money or manpower to help them keep the huge and swelling sex-offenders' registry up to date or to police its confusing mass of rules.

ECONOMIST: Sex laws

Specifically, it means shifting responsibility for punishment from prisons, which in America are state or federal operations, to jails, which are run by counties and their elected sheriffs.

ECONOMIST: California��s overcrowded prisons