reprieve

• vt. 缓期执行；暂时解救
• n. 暂缓；缓刑

来 自 中古 法 语 repris, 来 自 reprendre 过 去 分词 形 式 ， 来自 reprendre, 抓 回 ， 来 自 拉 丁语 reprehendere,抓回，来自 re-,向后，往回，prehendere,抓住，词源同 prison,reprehensible.其原 义为抓回监狱，送回监狱，后引申词义延缓死刑。拼写可能受-eve 影响。

1. a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort

2. an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

3. a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence)

4. the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment

reprieve

reprieve: [16] Reprieve originally meant ‘send back to prison’ (‘Of this treason he was found guilty, and reprieved in the Tower a long time’, Edmund Campion, History of Ireland 1571), but since this was often the alternative to execution, the word soon came to mean ‘suspend a death sentence’. The form in which it originally occurs, at the end of the 15th century, is repry, and it is not clear where the v came from. Repry was borrowed from repris, the past participle of Old French reprendre ‘take back’.

This in turn went back to Latin reprehendere (source of English reprehensible [14]), a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘back, again’ and prehendere ‘seize, take’ (source of English prison, prize, surprise, etc). The medieval Latin derivative reprehensālia produced English reprisal [15], and the feminine past participle of Old French reprendre was the source of English reprise [14].
=> apprehend, prison, prize, reprisal, reprise, surprise

reprieve (v.)

1570s, reprive, "take back to prison," alteration (perhaps by influence of reprove) of Middle English repryen "to remand, detain" (late 15c.), probably from Middle French repris, past participle of reprendre "take back" (see reprise). Meaning "to suspend an impending execution" is recorded from 1590s; this sense evolved because being sent back to prison was the alternative to being executed. Spelling with -ie- is from 1640s, perhaps by analogy of achieve, etc. Related: Reprieved; reprieving.

reprieve (n.)

1590s, from reprieve (v.).

a reprieved murderer

被判死刑而暂缓执行的杀人犯

牛津词典

70 jobs have been reprieved until next April.

有70个职位暂时保留到明年四月份。

牛津词典

Campaigners have won a reprieve for the hospital threatened with closure.

活动家们为这家受关闭威胁的医院赢得了喘息的机会。

牛津词典

Fourteen people, waiting to be hanged for the murder of a former prime minister, have been reprieved.

因谋杀前首相而即将处以绞刑的14个人已获缓刑。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

It looked as though the college would have to shut, but this week it was given a reprieve.

这所大学看起来要关闭了，但这周情况暂时有所缓解。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

That past weeks had been an unexpected brief reprieve.

过去的几星期不过是出乎意外的苟延残喘.

辞典例句

These considerations , of themselves very powerful , induced the spectatorsapprehend the possibility of a reprieve to him.

这些猜测颇有分量, 使观众不由不预料到他有可能得到缓刑.

期刊摘选

As for my unlikely allies, I think that I shall allow them a reprieve.

至于我的盟友们, 我想我应该给他们一个缓刑的机会.

期刊摘选

Unless there is a reprieve the condemned man will hang on Friday.

除非缓刑,那个被宣判的人将于星期五被处绞刑.

期刊摘选

Campaigners have won a reprieve for the hospital threatened with closure.

活动家们为这家受关闭威胁的医院赢得了喘息的机会.

期刊摘选

The news from Saarland was an unexpected reprieve for the CDU.

然而,从萨尔兰州传来的消息却意外的给了CDU当头一棒.

期刊摘选

The FSA may enjoy its reprieve only until the next election.

到下一届大选之前,FSA也许还可以暂时存在一段时间.

期刊摘选

He was saved from the gallows by a lastminute reprieve.

最后一刻的缓刑令把他从绞架上解救了下来.

《简明英汉词典》

The criminal won his reprieve at the eleventh hour.

罪犯在最后的关头获得缓刑.

期刊摘选

Britain gained this reprieve because it has some things going for it as a sovereign borrower.

英国的债务之所以能够得到延迟是因为他是以国家来负债.

期刊摘选

One tender moment's reprieve from loneliness can illuminate a life.

刹时间从孤独中的解脱可以影响一生的生活.

期刊摘选

The periodic table would appear thus to have won a temporary reprieve.

元素周期表的修改貌似要减缓咯.

期刊摘选

To some we should similarly apply the policy of passing the death sentence with a reprieve.

其中有些人亦应采取判死缓刑的政策.

期刊摘选

Even this extra minute was a reprieve.

就这样多拖延一分钟也好象是一种缓刑.

辞典例句

Commutation is distinct from reprieve.

减刑不同于缓刑.

辞典例句

The family have won a temporary reprieve from eviction.

这个家庭暂时免于被逐出.

《简明英汉词典》

The judge pronounced to reprieve a condemned prisoner

法官宣布缓期执行被判罪囚犯的刑罚。

辞典例句

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。

柯林斯例句

It looked as though the college would have to shut, but this week it was given a reprieve.

这所大学看起来要关闭了，但这周情况暂时有所缓解。

柯林斯例句