特赦

Despite the after the fact advantages of tax amnesties, immigration amnesties, etc., countries are likely to be better off if they could avoid having them at all.

尽管税法赦免、非法移民的特赦等具有这样的事后优势，各个国家如能从避免那些的话，还是会更好些的吧。

Local officials are often open to bribery, while politicians are prone to declaring amnesties for illegal buildings ahead of an election.

地方官员经常公开受贿，而政客们则喜欢在选举之前宣布特赦这些非法建筑。

Ever since a British mercenary, Simon Mann, bungled an attempt to topple Mr Nguema in a coup in 2004—an effort tacitly backed by several Western powers—the country has been trying to rebrand itself as an emerging democracy while cosying up to old critics. In November the president pardoned and freed Mr Mann and four South African co-plotters; the Briton had served only a year and a bit of his 34-year sentence.

2004年，英国雇佣军官西蒙·曼恩试图颠覆恩圭马总统的政变失败了，这次行动得到几个西方势力的支持，意在和旧有的批评者取得一致妥协的前提下，重造一个新的民主国家。11月，恩圭马总统特赦释放了曼恩和四个南非的同谋者，英国人仅服了他34年刑期的一年。

Better still for General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, the coup leader, and his fellow junta members to retire gracefully, forswearing political meddling to enjoy the amnesty they granted themselves.

另一个更好的结果就是泰国陆军总司令颂提也是政变的领导者，以及他的军团成员大方退下，保证不干涉政治，获得他们授予自己的特赦。

Better still for General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, the coup leader, and his fellow junta members to retire gracefully, forswearing political meddling to enjoy the amnesty they granted themselves.

政变领导人颂提·汶耶拉卡林将军和他的同僚集团的成员平静的撤退，给与他们自己特赦，不再过问政治，这也是不错的选择。

Amnesty International believes that the death penalty legitimizes an irreversible act of violence by the state.

国际特赦组织认为，死刑是将不可回复的国家暴力合法化。

Amnesty mobilizes thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who have.

国际特赦组织动员成千没有因信念而受到虐待或监禁的人们在代表那些因信念而受到虐待或监禁的人们。

"You are hereby pardoned," he said.

他说：&你被特赦了。&

He was pardoned at age 53 after serving 10 years in prison and became a gardener in Beijing.

他在监狱服刑10年后于53岁时被特赦，此后成为了北京的一名园丁。

A previous amnesty that pardoned only those who ratted on their comrades failed.

早先 的特赦仅局限于出卖了同志的人。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失