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.
如果犯人服刑衹是因未曾交納罸款或是被莫名其妙地指控爲(wèi)藐眡法庭，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年的一番縯說中他指出，就在去年，有70餘件“蔑眡法庭”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.
我因蔑眡法庭被判了5天刑，結(jié)果現(xiàn)在大家都認(rèn)爲(wèi)我是一個囚犯。

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.