13-08-30 Tens of thousands of people marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and down the National Mall on Saturday, commemorating the 50th anniversary of King's famous speech and pledging that his dream includes equality for gays, Latinos, the poor a...

13-08-22 A 15-year-old girl who was sentenced to 100 lashes for engaging in premarital sex has had her punishment overturned by a Maldives court. 马尔代夫一名15岁少女因婚前性行为被判鞭笞100次，不过该判决近期被最高法院推翻。 The High Court ruled on Wednesday...

13-07-11 Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to all charges in his first court appearance, as blast victims looked on. 波士顿马拉松爆炸案疑犯佐哈尔在首场庭审中、在爆炸受害人旁听的情况下对所有指控表示不认罪。 Tsarnaev appeare...

13-03-19 Zero hour字面意思是零点。这个习惯用语起始于1917年第一次世界大战期间，是指发动某一军事行动的时刻。在这关键性时刻迫近时，战壕里的军官便看着手表上的分针秒针倒数计时直到预定时刻，也就是零点，就立即对部下发出信号，命令大家跃出战壕扑向敌人的阵地。如今军队...

13-03-19 hit and run 肇事逃逸 intentional killing 故意杀人 The Supreme People's Court (SPC) 最高人民法院 Intermediate People's Court 中级人民法院 surrender to police 向警方自首 second trial 二审 adjournment 休庭 statutory appeal period 法定上诉期 criminal re...

13-01-15 US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who has not asked a question in court for nearly seven years, has spoken to a lawyer presenting a case. 美国最高法院大法官克拉伦斯托马斯日前与一位陈述案情的律师讲话，他近七年在法庭中未曾说过一句话。 Clarence...

12-12-18 Chief table pounder is the person who is the most ardent champion of a new or different way of doing things by slapping office furniture (usually a board table) with the flat of an open palm for emphasis. It's rather like using a judge's gavel to im...

12-07-07 Maria Sharapova, the former Wimbledon champion dubbed the Queen of Screams, claimed yesterday that she was too old to stop grunting on court. 前温网女单冠军玛利亚莎拉波娃绰号是尖叫女王，她昨天表示自己年纪太大，已经改不掉场上尖叫的习惯。 After cement...

12-05-31 Prime Minister David Cameron's former director of communications Andy Coulson has been charged with perjury. 英国首相大卫卡梅隆的前通讯主任安迪库尔森因伪证罪被起诉。 Mr Coulson, 44, was questioned in Glasgow as part of an investigation into evidence...

11-10-22 爱尔兰法院服务部近日宣布，法官出庭时不再需要佩戴标志性假发。这一变革使沿袭了超过350年的传统就此终结，同时还为爱尔兰纳税人节约不少开支。 Ireland's judges are to ditch（丢弃） their horsehair wigs after 350 years, the country's Courts Service said. A...