impunity

英 [ɪmˈpjuːnəti]

美 [ɪmˈpjuːnəti]

n.  免于惩罚; 不受惩处; 逃过惩罚

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Collins.1 / BNC.18918 / COCA.14823

牛津词典

noun

• 免于惩罚；不受惩处；逃过惩罚
  if a person does sth bad with impunity , they do not get punished for what they have done

柯林斯词典

• PHRASE (做坏事却)不受惩罚地
  If you say that someone does somethingwith impunity, you disapprove of the fact that they are not punished for doing something bad.
  1. Mr Cook said future aggressors would be able to act with impunity if the objectives of the UN weren't met...
     库克先生说如果联合国的目标无法达成,那么将来的侵略者就可能会逃脱惩罚。
  2. These gangs operate with apparent impunity.
     这些团伙明目张胆地活动,却不受任何惩罚。

英英释义

noun

• exemption from punishment or loss

双语例句

• Myanmar must be made to understand it cannot persecute a minority with impunity.
  国际社会必须让缅甸知道，迫害一个少数民族不可能不受惩罚。
• Will they remember that the Assad regime was stopped from those weapons current or future use, or will they remember that the world stood aside and created impunity?
  他们是将记得阿萨德政权现在和未来被制止了使用这些武器，还是记得世界曾袖手旁观，令其逍遥法外？
• These gangs operate with apparent impunity.
  这些团伙明目张胆地活动，却不受任何惩罚。
• Mr Cook said future aggressors would be able to act with impunity if the objectives of the UN weren't met
  库克先生说如果联合国的目标无法达成，那么将来的侵略者就可能会逃脱惩罚。
• The ability of the Nationalists to carry out bomb attacks with impunity has shocked the French people.
  民族主义分子能进行炸弹攻击而免受惩罚使得法国人民大为震惊。
• That means that drug gangs can kidnap almost with impunity.
  那意味着毒犯在绑架后可以几乎不受惩罚。
• There shall be more in American liberty than the privilege we enjoy of insulting the president with impunity.
  美国应该有比侮辱总统而不受惩罚更大的自由。
• I am disillusioned by the institutions of China that let a man of such recklessness get away with impunity.
  大失所望是因为中国的机构让一个如此粗心鲁莽的人逃过了惩罚。
• An English ship had roamed the Indian Ocean, preying with impunity upon Portuguese commerce.
  一艘英国船已经漫游了印度洋，肆无忌惮地劫掠了葡萄牙人的商业。
• My work may be of none, but I must not think it of none, or I shall not do it with impunity.
  我的工作也许丝毫不重要，但我绝不这样认为，否则我就不能泰然自若地去做它。