喜樂美語
  1. 1可起訴的；可公訴的（罪行夠嚴重、須走正式起訴程序）。英國法系常對比 summary（簡易程序）；美國日常較常說 felony（重罪）。

    An indictable offence is a crime serious enough that a person can be indicted for it — formally charged and usually tried in a higher court, not only handled as a small local matter. The word is especially at home in British and Commonwealth law, where offences are often sorted into summary (less serious, dealt with quickly) and indictable (more serious). In everyday US news you are more likely to hear felony, though US law still uses indict. Like indict, the c is silent: in-DITE-uh-bul. It is a lawyer’s and news-report word. The adjective almost always sits on the offence, the crime — not on the person.

組成indict（起訴）+ -able（能夠被……的）。From indict + -able.

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原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

indictableadj/ɪnˈdaɪtəbəl/

  • 1

    Subjecting one to an indictment. (of an act)

    • Do not then charge men as too strict or precise, when they endeavour to abstain from idle thoughts and idle words, that they dare not give themselves that licence which others take, for these are indictable as well as great sins;
    • Stoppage of streets, by coaches standing at places of entertainment, &c. &c. are public nusances, and indictable.
  • 2

    Able or deserving to be indicted. (of a person)

    • […] for Lords, Judges, and Justices of all sorts may, and too often do transgress the laws, as other men, and so of equals or Superiours, become subject to the justice of their associats in Commission […] being transfigured from Superiour Judges of the Law, to Inferiour Trespassers against it, Indictable by their Peers,
    • 1973, Raoul Berger, Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems, Harvard University Press, Appendix B, p. 307, In order to sustain his argument in the impeachment of Justice Samuel Chase, Luther Martin, his leading counsel, maintained that judges were indictable for violation of their official duties.

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