Before the mid-1950s, a diagnosis of schizophrenia was a life sentence without a possibility of parole . 五十年代中期以前,一个人若被诊断患有精神分裂症,就等于被判了无期徒刑而终无出狱的希望。
A : the murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment 那个杀人犯被判处了无期徒刑。
The murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment 那个杀人犯被判处了无期徒刑。
His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment 他的死刑改为了无期徒刑。
The guilty criminal got a lifer , he was sentenced to forty years in prison 罪犯得到了无期徒刑,他被判了40年监禁。
He had frequently called for capital punishment on criminals , and owing to his irresistible eloquence they had been condemned , and yet the slightest shadow of remorse had never clouded villefort s brow , because they were guilty ; at least , he believed so ; but here was an innocent man whose happiness he had destroyed : in this case he was not the judge , but the executioner 他常常主张对犯人处以极刑,是靠了他那不可抗拒的雄辨把他们定罪的,他的眉头从来没有留下一点儿阴影,因为他们是有罪的至少,他相信是如此,但现在这件事却完全不一样,他给一个清白无辜的判了无期徒刑那是一个站在幸福之门无辜的人。这一次,他不是法官而是刽子手了。