商務(wù)英語口語會刊 10

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法律事務(wù)——法律行為(2)
    1.Defendant 被告
    A: If I accuse you of something, you become the defendant, right?
    B: Right. And you are called the plaintiff.
    A:如果我指控你,你就變成了被告,對嗎?
    B:是的,那你就叫做原告。
    2.Execution 執(zhí)行死刑
    A: I saw on the TV of a death penalty execution yesterday.
    B: I hate to see those kinds of things.
    A:我昨天在電視上看到了執(zhí)行死刑。
    B:我不愿意看那種事情。
    3.DA(District Attorney) 公訴人
    A: What is the District Attorney?
    B: A DA represents the government in a case.
    A:公訴人是什么人?
    B:公訴人在法庭上代表政府。
    4.Law firm 律師事務(wù)所
    A: How do you select a law firm?
    B: You don't select a law firm. You select a lawyer in most case.
    A:你如何選擇律師事務(wù)所?
    B:大多數(shù)情況下不是選擇律師事務(wù)所,而是選擇律師。
    5.Sentence 宣判
    A: When you get a cancer, isn't that like being sentenced to death?
    B: Not really. Many cancer patients are still living well.
    A:如果得了癌癥是不是就意味著判了死刑?
    B:也不完全是,許多癌癥患者都活得好好的