prosecution

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌpɹɒs.ɪˈkjuː.ʃən/    美 /ˌpɹɑ.sɪˈkju.ʃən/|/ˌpɹɔs.ɪˈkjʉː.ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor. countable,uncountable
    — The prosecution of the war fell to Winston Churchill.
  2. The institution of legal proceedings (particularly criminal) against a person. countable,uncountable
    — Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
  3. The prosecuting party. countable,uncountable
    — The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."
  4. In many countries, a legal body and institution, usually part of the state apparatus, empowered to perform prosecution. Prosecutor's Office. See Prosecutor. countable,uncountable
    — Backed by public outrage, the prosecution requested the death penalty to be imposed on the murderer.

词形变化

prosecutions plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antiprosecution criminal prosecution deferred prosecution agreement malicious prosecution nonprosecution overprosecution prosecutional prosecution association prosecution history
相关词
persecution prosecute sequence

词源

Equivalent to prosecute + -ion, from Middle French prosecution, from Late Latin prōsecutio, from Latin prōsequor (“follow, pursue”), from pro- (“onward”) + sequor (“follow”) (English sequel). Compare persecution, and see more at prosecute.
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