Former Top Chinese Judge Gets Life in Prison
前中国大法官被判无期徒刑
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http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_china/2010-01-20/125746118992.html
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【新闻关键字】
1. supreme : adj. 最高的；至上的
2. sentence : vt. 宣判，判决
3. bribery : n. 行贿；受贿
4. equivalent : n. 相等物；等价物
5. allegedly : adv. 据传闻，据宣称
6. ruling : n. 裁决，裁定；规定
7. charge : vt. 控告，指控
8. high-profile : adj. 倍受瞩目；立场明确的
9. corruption : n. 堕落；腐化；贪污；贿赂
10. scandal : n. 丑闻，耻辱
A former Chinese Supreme Court judge has been sentenced to life in prison for embezzlement and bribery.
中国前最高法院法官于日前因挪用公款和受贿被判决终身监禁。
52-year-old Huang Songyou was convicted in a Beijing court on Tuesday for taking the equivalent of more than half a million U.S. dollars in bribes. He allegedly accepted the money from a law firm between 2005 and 2008 in exchange for making rulings in their favor. Huang was serving as a judge on the Supreme People’s Court at the time.
52岁的黄松有在星期二北京法院，因收取价值等同于美金超过50万元的贿赂遭判刑确定。据传闻，他在2005-2008年间收受一家法律事务所的金钱，来交换做出对他们有利的裁决。黄在当时担任最高人民法院的法官。
He was also charged with embezzling $176,000 U.S. dollars in government funds while serving as president of lower city-level court in China’s Guangdong Province in 1997.
他也被控在1997年任职广东省中级人民法院院长期间，挪用政府资金17万6000美金。
Huang’s case is one in a string of high-profile corruption and embezzlement scandals in China over the past year.
黄松有的案例是中国近几年来，一连串倍受瞩目的贪污以及挪用公款的丑闻之ㄧ。
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1. sentenced to life in prison for embezzlement and bribery.
for taking the equivalent f more than half a million U.S. dollars in bribes
2. He allegedly accepted the money from a law firm
3. in exchange for making rulings in their favor.
4. He was also charged with embezzling $176,000 U.S. dollars
5. in a string of high-profile corruption and embezzlement scandals
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