contempt of court

基本解釋

Prisoners may vote if they are doing time for non-payment of fines or, strangely, contempt of court.
如果犯人服刑只是因未曾交納罰款或是被莫名其妙地指控為藐視法庭，那他們理應(yīng)有投票的權(quán)利。
In a speech in 2003 he noted that over the preceding year more than 70 contempt-of-court cases had been considered sufficiently serious to warrant investigation by his office.
在2003年的一番演說中他指出，就在去年，有70余件“蔑視法庭”的案件足夠嚴(yán)重到可以批準(zhǔn)調(diào)查。
I was sentenced to five days for contempt of court and now everybody thinks I'm a jail-bird.
我因蔑視法庭被判了5天刑，結(jié)果現(xiàn)在大家都認(rèn)為我是一個(gè)囚犯。

He has also been barred from taking part in the parliamentary elections because of a contempt-of-court charge against him.
ECONOMIST: Kazakhstan
Meanwhile, on November 3rd, the Supreme Court threatened contempt-of-court proceedings against Mr Sharif over his handling of the court-enlargement affair.
ECONOMIST: Pakistan

Contempt of court is the criminal offence of disobeying an instruction from a judge or a court of law.