大多数案件只在初审阶段进行：例如，刑事被告被定罪（通过审判或认罪）并由法庭判决，案件就结束了。

Most cases go no further than the trial court: for example, the criminal defendant is convicted (by a trial or a guilty plea) and sentenced by the court and the case ends.

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如果不听话的儿子或女儿知道另一种选择是公开审判，那么更有可能达成某种和解。

It is far more likely that some sort of amicable settlement would be reached if the recalcitrant son or daughter knows that the alternative is a public trial.

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这次审判与白水事件、希拉里或我都没关系。

The trial had nothing to do with Whitewater, Hillary, or me.

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If you ever read the Book of Apocalypse--or Revelation -you know it's hellfire and brimstone, the day of judgment, damnation--election into the group of the blessed, and so on.

如果你曾读过《启示录》或《天意》,你知道那些地狱火和硫磺,审判日,诅咒,获选受到保佑的人们,诸如此类

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