A witness's credibility noticeably diminishes as the enormity of the crime or the unlikeliness of its circumstances increase.

罪行越严重，情节越难以置信，证据的尺度应越严格。

 

An act does not make a person guilty of a crime unless the mind is also guilty.

没有主观过错的行为不会令行为人有罪。

 

An intoxicated¹ person who commits a crime shall bear criminal responsibility.

醉酒者犯罪应负刑事责任。

 

By selling alcohol to minors², the shop is deliberately³ flouting⁴ the law.

向未成年人出售烈酒，是商店故意犯罪。

 

Criminal responsibility is to be borne for negligent⁵ crimes only when the law so provides.

过失犯罪，法律有明文规定时才负刑事责任。

 

Criminals responsibility shall be borne for intentional⁶ crimes.

故意犯罪，应当负刑事责任。

 

A crime is a behavior within the definition of the provisions of the criminal law and should be subject to criminal penalty.

犯罪是刑法规定范畴的应承担刑事责任的行为。

 

A crime is the behavior that is harmful to the society and should be punished with criminal penalty.

犯罪是具有社会危害性的行为，应当受到刑法处罚。

 

A sin takes in everything done, said and willed against right reason.

罪包含所有违背正确理性的行为、言词和意志。

 

Criminal are sick; they should be patients, not prisoners.

罪犯都是病态的，他们应该是病人，而不是囚犯。

 

Everyone is held to be innocent until he is proved guilty.

凡不能被证明有罪的，都是无罪。

 

Facility of pardon is an incentive⁷ to crime。

轻易赦免罪过，实际是鼓励犯罪。

 

Giving the killer⁸ what he deserves.

给杀人者应得之惩罚。

 

Hate the sin but not the sinner.

可恨的是罪行，而非罪人。

 

He carried out a felonious act.

他犯了重罪。

 

He confessed to the crime during his interrogation.

在询问中，他供认了犯罪。

 

He denied being in the house at the time of the murder.

他否认谋杀发生时他在住宅内。

 

He pleads not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter.

他承认误杀，不承认谋杀。

 

He tried to establish his innocence⁹.

他试图确定自己无罪。

 

He turned over a new leaf.

他洗心革面，重新做人。

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