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- a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes one or more subordinate clauses句子。
1.1
- Logic a series of signs or symbols expressing a proposition in an artificial or logical language【逻】命题。
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- the punishment assigned to a defendant found guilty by a court判决：
her husband is serving a three-year sentence for fraud.
她丈夫因欺诈被判处三年徒刑正在服刑。
2.1
- the punishment fixed by law for a particular offence徒刑：
slander of an official carried an eight-year prison sentence.
诽谤官员要处以八年徒刑。
with obj.
- declare the punishment decided for (an offender)对（罪犯）进行宣判：
ten army officers were sentenced to death.
十名军官被判处死刑。
短语
under sentence of
- having been condemned to被判刑：
he was under sentence of death.
他被判处死刑。
词源
Middle English （in the senses 'way of thinking, opinion', 'court's declaration of punishment', and 'gist (of a piece of writing)'）： via Old French from Latin sententia 'opinion', from sentire 'feel, be of the opinion'.