Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense reprieves, present participle reprieving, past tense, past participle reprieved
1VERB [usually passive, no cont]对…缓期执行,撤销…的刑罚 If someone who has been sentenced in a court is reprieved, their punishment is officially delayed or cancelled. 对…缓期执行,撤销…的刑罚
Fourteen people, waiting to be hanged for the murder of a former prime minister, have been reprieved. [beVERB-ed]
A man awaiting death by lethal injection has been saved by a last minute reprieve.
一个即将被执行注射死刑的男子在最后一分钟获得缓刑。
2N-COUNT [usually singular](不好或艰难情况的)暂缓,延缓 A reprieve is a delay before a very unpleasant or difficult situation which may or may not take place. (不好或艰难情况的)暂缓,延缓
It looked as though the college would have to shut, but this week it was given a reprieve.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + REPRIEVE | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤brief, temporary短期/暫時的死刑緩刑➤welcome令人高興的緩刑▸➤last-minute最後一分鐘的死刑緩刑令◇He was saved from the electric chair by a last-minute reprieve.最後一刻的死刑緩刑令把他從電椅上解救了下來。VERB + REPRIEVE➤earn, gain, get, receive, win獲得緩刑;得到緩刑;爭取到緩刑➤offer, provide (especially NAmE) 給予緩解◇This house offers no reprieve from the heat.這棟房子無法緩解炎熱。➤give sb/sth, grant (sb/sth)給予⋯緩期執行;准予(⋯)緩期執行◇The school was granted a six-month reprieve.這個學校獲准暫緩關閉 6 個月。PREPOSITION➤reprieve from暫時免於⋯◇The family has won a temporary reprieve from eviction.這家人暫時免於被驅逐。