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perpetrator

/pur-pi-trey-ter/US // ˈpɜr pɪˌtreɪ tər //

肇事者,行凶者,犯罪者,犯罪人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who perpetrates, or commits, an illegal, criminal, or evil act: The perpetrators of this heinous crime must be found and punished to the fullest extent of the law.

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Examples

  • Nearly two in five said that nothing happened to that perpetrator.

  • We hear from the perpetrators, some of them remorseless and eager for more blood, others wondering what had taken hold of them in a moment of violence, worried about getting caught.

  • Survivors shouldn’t also be forced to jump through hurdles to hold their perpetrators accountable.

  • In some cities, it’s been used to make predictions about who might be a victim or a perpetrator of violent crime.

  • There needs to be accountability, she said, because forgiveness does not happen when a perpetrator wants to move on.

  • Choosing not to pursue a perpetrator is not admittance of lies or false motives.

  • However, Brunner was not the only perpetrator of the Holocaust mooching around the streets of the Syrian capital.

  • Ultimately, all it took was the mere mention of a lawyer for the perpetrator to delete the accounts and disappear completely.

  • Another surveillance video, showing the perpetrator with hammer in hand, is here.

  • Nor is it surprising that the employer of the accused has neither fired the alleged perpetrator nor denounced the trial.

  • If an apology is made by the unlucky perpetrator of the accident, try to set him at his ease by your own lady-like composure.

  • How frequently it has been said that an evil deed recoils upon the head of the perpetrator!

  • If he was the perpetrator of this crime, how comes it that he was not detected and denounced by the young people I saw going out?

  • Laurie viewed the perpetrator of the melancholy sounds with a cold, unrelenting eye.

  • Those cognisant of the facts concluded that the perpetrator of the mischief was discovered.