| 释义 |
impunityim‧pu‧ni‧ty /ɪmˈpjuːnəti/ noun   impunityOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin impunitas, from poena ‘pain, punishment’ - A general sense of impunity has added greatly to this situation.
- Abolishing impunity within the government is critical to the process.
- An officer who wants to take it easy, for example, or run personal errands can do so with virtual impunity.
- For if a libertine knows he can indulge himself with impunity, he will throw all cautions to the winds.
- In return they receive fat pay packets and impunity.
- The employment protection legislation operates to restrict the grounds on which an employer can terminate the contract of employment with impunity.
- The satellite, therefore, with its celestial impunity was the perfect platform.
- Though of no legal effect, it can be used, apparently with impunity, to mislead a buyer about his rights.
to not be punished► get off informal if a criminal gets off , they get little or no official punishment for their crime: · If he gets off, it's because he has a smart lawyer.get off easy: · You got off easy; you should have been expelled.get off scot-free (=escape punishment completely): · Despite the evidence against him, Heston got off scot-free. ► get away with to do something wrong and not be caught or not be punished for it: · He probably got away with about a dozen crimes before he was finally arrested for one.get away with it: · He was the only child in the class who could be rude to the teacher and get away with it.get away with murder informal (=to be allowed to do anything you want and not be punished for it): · Ronnoe lets his kids get away with murder. ► beat the rap American informal to avoid being punished after breaking the law, especially because you cannot be proved guilty: · Frye was arrested on state and federal charges, but he managed to beat the rap. ► with impunity if someone is able to do something wrong or illegal with impunity , they can do it without any risk of being punished: · If you see others breaking the law with impunity, you may be tempted to do the same.· The previous regime was corrupt, and government officials were able to flout the law with impunity. ► go unpunished if bad behaviour, crime etc goes unpunished, the person who behaved badly or did something wrong is not punished for it: · Guards involved in drug deals went unpunished.· Hate crimes will not be tolerated and will not go unpunished. do something with impunity if someone does something bad with impunity, there is no risk that they will be punished for it:  It’s astonishing that these criminals are free to walk the streets with impunity. |