| 单词 | mitigating circumstances/factors |
| 释义 | mitigating circumstances/factorsmitigating circumstances/factors SCTfacts about a situation that make a crime or bad mistake seem less serious 可使罪行减轻的情节/因素 Judges often give reduced sentences where there are mitigating circumstances. 要是有可从轻处置的情节，法官往往会判较短的刑期。 Examples from the Corpus mitigating circumstances/factors• A good barrister - he'd known Thomas Walters for years - would be able to argue mitigating circumstances.• In its defence, the Government pleads mitigating circumstances.• Lancashire were subsequently fined £500, not £700, because of mitigating circumstances.• Now, that decision has been overturned although the appeal judges spoke of strong mitigating factors in the case.• There were also mitigating factors, Lord Lane said.• I understand that there are mitigating circumstances, programming complications, contracts, etc.• Juries have long stretched notions of self-defense or extended implicit clemency to recognize mitigating factors such as provocation and histories of abuse.• In the absence of mitigating factors the virus is likely to hit a dead end wherever strict role separation is practiced. → mitigating circumstances/factors at mitigating(1) |
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