英语单词分类 轻松记单词

extenuation

extenuation基本解释

n.酌量减轻;减轻

extenuation同义词

extenuation相关例句

用作名词(n.)
  • The lawyer pleaded his client's youth in extenuation of the crime.
    律师以其当事人年少为由请求减轻其罪行。
  • We will be guilty of criminal negligence, without extenuation, if we permit future famines.
    如果我们允许未来的饥荒发生,我们就是在犯罪,而且没有什么能减轻我们的罪责。

extenuation英英释义

Noun:
  • a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances

  • to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious