看新闻学英语(252)：前中国大法官被判刑

Former Top Chinese Judge Gets Life in Prison

前中国大法官被判无期徒刑



本新闻影音出处：新唐人电视台英语新闻

http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_china/2010-01-20/125746118992.html



【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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