Many of the nearly 500prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have been held more than 31/2years without charge or access to lawyers.Most werecaptured in the Afghanistan war，suspected of ties to the al Qaeda terroristnetwork or the Taliban regime ousted by U.S.forces in late 2001（.CNN）
probation [pr[5beiF[n]缓刑Debra Lafave，25，whose sensational case made tabloid headlines，will serve three years of house arrest and seven years’probation.She pleadedguilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery（.AP）
prosecute [5prCsI9kju：t]告发；检举prosecutor [5prCsI9kju：t[]原告；起诉人；检举人prosecuting attorney 检察官Federal authorities may prosecute sick people whose doctors prescribe marijuana to ease pain，the Supreme Court ruled Monday，concluding thatstate laws don‘t protect users from a federal ban on the drug（.NBC）
The UN’s top war crimes prosecutor chides EU hopeful Croatia over itsfailure to arrest a wanted general（.BBC）
James Gilmore，former governor of Virginia，attorney general and prosecuting attorney for the state of Virginia and also served as theRepublican party‘s national chairman（.NBC）
release sb from 释放某人
Iraqi police have released a British national who had been arrested insouthern Iraq，officials said（.AP）
reverse [rI5v[：s]改变；使成相反的东西
A mother is to be given the breast cancer drug Herceptin on the NHS aftera primary care trust reverses its ruling（.BBC）
ruling [5rU：lIN]支配的；裁决、裁定Police clashed with opposition supporters Tuesday after the ruling party was declared the winner of elections marred by allegations of vote-rigging，and officials said nine people were killed -five protesters and four police.（REUTERS）
search（for）[s[：tF]搜索、搜寻；探查
Indian army divers search for people in submerged cars of a train thatderailed on Saturday，killing 110（.BBC）
seize [sI：z]逮捕；查封seizure [5sI：V[]逮捕；查封Gunmen stormed an offshore oil platform run by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria and seized four foreign oil workers，a company official saidThursday（.NBC）
More than 10，000demonstrators shouted “Death to America”and “Death to Israel”in front of the former embassy compound，marking the 26th anniversary of the Nov.4，1979seizure of the embassy by studentmilitants（.AP）
sentence sb to 判某人徒刑a death sentence 死刑a life sentence 无期徒刑a sentence of ...years ……年徒刑A Utah man was sentenced Monday to six years to life in prison forshooting his wife to death as she slept a year ago（.NBC）
Family members of the victims have also appealed to Schwarzenegger toallow the death sentence to be carried out（.NBC）
You know，one of the things juries want to know when they givea person a life sentence，rather than execution，is the person is going to stay in prison.Why is there a parole hearing for a guy who is getting three consecutive life sentences？（NBC）Bernard Ebbers，the once-swaggering CEO of WorldCom who oversaw the largest corporate fraud in U.S.history，wept in court Wednesday after a judge sentenced him to 25years in prison -the toughest sentence yet in thestring of recent corporate scandals（.USA TODAY）
session [5seF[n]会议President George W.Bush on Friday called on the United Nations to convene a session as soon as possible to deal with a U.N.investigative report implicating Syrian officials in the assassination of former LebanesePrime Minister Rafik Hariri（.AP）
smuggle [5smQgl]走私、偷运smuggler [5smQgl[]走私者、走私船、走私犯FBI agents in Los Angeles arrest four people for allegedly trying tosmuggle US military secrets to Cuba（.BBC）
Investigators say Dong paid a human smuggler to enter the United States through Mexico and that she came to this country only for economicreasons（.AP）
spy [spai]间谍spying activities 间谍活动A U.S.U-2spy plane has crashed in southwest Asia，but the military hasnot disclosed the location of the crash or any of the circumstances（.CNN）