day 128in court
unit 19 · law & crimein court
Follow a court case from start to finish (a broken contract, a claim, a trial) and use the formal verbs 予以, 加以 and 有所.
today’s words
- 案件 ànjiàn · (legal) case
- 報案 bào'àn · report (a crime) to the police
- 逮捕 dǎibǔ · arrest
- 違背 wéibèi · go against, violate (a principle)
- 違約 wéiyuē · break a contract
- 現行 xiànxíng · current, in force
- 准許 zhǔnxǔ · permit, allow (formal)
- 遵循 zūnxún · follow, abide by
- 辯護 biànhù · defend, speak in defence of
- 官司 guānsī · lawsuit
- 審判 shěnpàn · try (a case), bring to trial
- 正當 zhèngdāng · legitimate, proper
- 證人 zhèngrén · witness
- 指控 zhǐkòng · accuse, charge
- 索賠 suǒpéi · claim damages, claim compensation
- 法制 fǎzhì · legal system
- 判 pàn · judge, sentence, rule
- 有所 yǒusuǒ · to some extent (+ verb)
- 予以 yǔyǐ · give, apply (formal, + verb)
- 坐鎮 zuòzhèn · take personal command, be there in charge
- 閉塞 bìsè · cut off, isolated; ill-informed
- 沖天 chōngtiān · soaring (to the sky)
- 仿造 fǎngzào · copy, make an imitation of
sentences
- 我們的設計遭人仿造了。 · Our design has been copied.
- 對方違約，我們要向他們索賠。 · The other side broke the contract, so we’re claiming damages.
- 這個案件下個月開始審判。 · The trial in this case starts next month.
- 法院將對違約的一方予以處罰。 · The court will penalize the side that broke the contract.
- 他們的態度最近有所改變。 · Their attitude has changed somewhat recently.