刑罚 (刑罰)
xíng fá
Pinyin

Definition

刑罚 (刑罰)
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xíng fá
  1. sentence
  2. penalty
  3. punishment

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

刑事
xíng shì
  1. 1 criminal
  2. 2 penal
刑警
xíng jǐng
  1. 1 abbr. for 刑事警察[xíng shì jǐng chá]
  2. 2 criminal police
死刑
sǐ xíng
  1. 1 death penalty
刑侦
xíng zhēn
  1. 1 criminal investigation
刑场
xíng chǎng
  1. 1 execution ground
  2. 2 gallows
  3. 3 scaffold

Sample Sentences

哈哈，这束棒可是一种刑罚工具喔，如果犯法就会被斧头砍下脑袋。
hāhā ，zhè shùbàng kěshì yīzhǒng xíngfá gōngjù ō ，rúguǒ fànfǎ jiù huì bèi fǔtóu kǎnxià nǎodài 。
Ha ha, this bundle of rods was actually a form of punishment. If you broke the law, you'd get your head lopped off with an axe.
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好像有个成语“请君入瓮”就跟这个刑罚有关。
hǎoxiàng yǒu gè chéngyǔ “qǐngjūnrùwèng ”jiù gēn zhè gè xíngfá yǒuguān 。
It seems like that saying “to throw one's self into the pot” has something to do with this kind of punishment.
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古代的刑罚是相当发达的。我们今天看到的刑具只是其中一小部分。像“五马分尸”“千刀万剐”“宫刑”这类酷刑更是惨无人道，骇人听闻。
gǔdài de xíngfá shì xiāngdāng fādá de 。wǒmen jīntiān kàndào de xíngjù zhǐshì qízhōng yì xiǎo bùfen 。xiàng “wǔmǎfēnshī ”“qiāndāowànguǎ ”“gōngxíng ”zhèlèi kùxíng gèng shì cǎnwúréndào ，hàiréntīngwén 。
Punishments in antiquity were very advanced. The torture devices we've seen today are a few of them. Punishments like being drawn and quartered, being hacked apart by knives or castration were even more appalling and brutal.
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你怎么能这么说？死刑多么残酷！这种古老的刑罚，一点也不适合现在 的社会，早该被废除了。其实大多数发达国家都在某种程度上废除了死刑，中国也该这样。
nǐ zěnme néng zhème shuō ？sǐxíng duōme cánkù ！zhèzhǒng gǔlǎo de xíngfá ，yīdiǎn yě bù shìhé xiànzài de shèhuì ，zǎo gāi bèi fèichú le 。qíshí dàduōshù fādáguójiā dōu zài mǒuzhǒng chéngdù shàng fèichú le sǐxíng ，Zhōngguó yě gāi zhèyàng 。
How can you say such a thing? The death penalty is so brutal. This kind of archaic punishment doesn't fit in at all with the society today. It should have been abolished a long time ago. Actually, the vast majority of developed countries have to some extent abolished capital punishment--China should too.
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