Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial democratic values, including the principles that all citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries; that jurors should be selected randomly from a representative cross section of the community; that no citizen should be denied the right to serve on a jury on account of race, religion, sex, or national origin; that defendants are entitled to trial by their peers; and that verdicts should represent the conscience of the community and not just the letter of the law.
许多美国人将陪审团制度视为关键民主价值观的具体体现,包括以下原则:所有符合年龄和读写能力最低要求的公民在担任陪审员方面都是同样胜任的;陪审员应从社区中具有代表性的各个群体中随机选出;不应因种族、宗教、性别或民族出身而剥夺任何公民担任陪审员的权利;被告有权接受同辈的审判;以及陪审团的裁决应体现社区的良知,而不仅仅是法律条文。
In an essay entitled “Making It in America,” the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a dog.
在一篇题为《在美国立足》的文章中,作者亚当·戴维森讲述了一个来自棉花产区的笑话,说明现代纺织厂的自动化程度有多高:如今一家平均的纺织厂只有两名员工,‘一个人和一条狗’。
The court, though, may want to allow room for police to cite situations where they are entitled to more freedom.
然而,法院可能希望为警方留出空间,让他们能够引用那些他们有权享有更多自由的情形。
are entitled to more educational privileges
有权享有更多教育优惠
If “entitled” is the most common adjective, fairly or not, applied to millennials (those born between 1981 and 1995), the catchwords for Generation Z are practical and cautious.
如果说‘自以为是’是最常被用来形容千禧一代(1981年至1995年间出生的人)的形容词,无论公平与否,那么Z世代的关键词则是实际和谨慎。
例句取自历年考研英语真题,翻译为机器生成,仅供学习参考。