法官

Now he may be about to get a second chance. John Paul Stevens, the present court's longest-serving justice, turns 90 on April 20th and speculation is rife that he may soon announce his retirement.

如今他或许要迎来自己的第二次机会了。4月20日即满90周岁的John Paul Stevens是当前最高法院任职时间最久的法官，对他即将宣布退休的推测流传非常广泛。

But in opposition, Justice John Paul Stevens argued the government can't lawfully endorse a religious symbol as a way to pay tribute to veterans.

但是反对者John Paul Stevens 法官表示，政府不应该从法律上赞同使用宗教性标志来向退伍老兵表达敬意。

WASHINGTON — The announcement by Justice John Paul Stevens on Friday that he would retire at the end of this term gives President Obama the rare opportunity to make back-to-back appointments to the Supreme Court during the first two years of his presidency.

华盛顿-周五，大法官约翰·保罗·斯蒂文斯宣布，这个任期结束之后，他将辞职。这给了奥巴马一个千载难逢的机会，在总统任期的前两年，他就有机会连续任命最高法院法官。

Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion.

这句话是不是"法官采纳了多数人的意见"？

President Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court this week. She would replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the nine-member Court.

奥巴马总统本周向美国最高法院提名埃琳娜·卡根，她将取代退休的约翰·保罗·史蒂文斯成为高法9名法官之一。

John Paul Stevens, the present court's longest-serving justice, turns 90 on April 20th and speculation is rife that he may soon announce his retirement.

保尔？史蒂文斯法官，本月20日年满90岁，人们普通推测，他可能很快宣布退休。

That is why the Supreme Court, which rules on grey areas, matters so much, and why the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens, the court's liberal anchor, will spark such a ferocious political brawl.

这就是支配灰色地带的最高法院要常常插手的原因，也是法院自由派旗帜、最高法院法官约翰·保罗·史提芬退休引起巨大政治争议的原因。

In the late 1990s French magistrate Madame Eva Joly was investigating corruption at the state-owned Elf oil company.

90年代末期，法国法官艾娃乔利开始调查国有的埃尔菲石油公司中存在的贪污问题。

Eva Joly, the former investigating judge on the Elf case and now a green euro-deputy, has said the move would be an attempt at "preventing investigations that trouble political power".

前埃尔夫一阿奎坦腐败丑闻案的调查法官、现绿色欧元案的副手伊娃乔利曾表示，此举是在"阻止对政权腐败案件的调查"。

This judge is a strong advocate of prison reform.

这位法官是监狱改革的坚决拥护者。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷