跟着《傲骨贤妻》学英语，第一季第三集-4

31. Can I be excused?

我能离开了吗？

32. I didn't make the soccer team.

我没进得了足球队。

33. He got immunity on felony murder by taking a lesser charge of burglary, and agreeing to testify against Kenny.

*immunity (from something): the state of being protected from something

 - get immunity from/on something

*take a lesser charge 认较轻的罪

*testify against/for somebody

34. Establish there was no burglary.

*establish: to discover or prove the facts of a situation

 synonym: ascertain

 - establish something: Police are still trying to establish the cause of the accident.

35. We tell the S.A. we got a witness corroborating permission and we cut Kenny's jail time by 10 years.

*corroborate:to provide evidence or information that supports a statement, theory, etc.

　synonym: confirm

 - The evidence was corroborated by two independent witnesses.

 - corroborating evidence

*cut somebody's jail time by + 时间

36. He shouldn't have to do any jail time.

*do some jail time

37. Without the burglary charge, he can't be held accountable for what happened after he left a crime scene.

*hold: [transitive](formal) to consider that something is true

 - hold that…: I still hold that the government's economic policies are mistaken.

 - hold somebody/something + adj.: Parents will be held responsible for their children's behaviour.

 - be held to be something: These vases are held to be the finest examples of Greek art.

*accountable: responsible for your decisions or actions and expected to explain them when you are asked

38. Guidance counselor says he's been suspended twice for fighting. 

*guidance counselor 辅导员

*[usually passive] suspend somebody (from something): to officially prevent somebody from doing their job, going to school, etc. for a time

39. Timeline is too mushy for reasonable doubt.

*timeline:a horizontal line that is used to represent time, with the past towards the left and the future towards the right

*too+adj. for something

40. We should be fighting for total exoneration.

*fight for something

*exoneration: the act of officially stating that somebody is not responsible for something that they have been blamed for