31. Can I be excused?
我能离开了吗？
32. I didn't make the soccer team.
我没进得了足球队。
33. He got immunity on felony murder by taking a lesser charge of burglary, and agreeing to testify against Kenny.
*immunity (from something): the state of being protected from something
- get immunity from/on something
*take a lesser charge 认较轻的罪
*testify against/for somebody
34. Establish there was no burglary.
*establish: to discover or prove the facts of a situation
synonym: ascertain
- establish something: Police are still trying to establish the cause of the accident.
35. We tell the S.A. we got a witness corroborating permission and we cut Kenny's jail time by 10 years.
*corroborate:to provide evidence or information that supports a statement, theory, etc.
synonym: confirm
- The evidence was corroborated by two independent witnesses.
- corroborating evidence
*cut somebody's jail time by + 时间
36. He shouldn't have to do any jail time.
*do some jail time
37. Without the burglary charge, he can't be held accountable for what happened after he left a crime scene.
*hold: [transitive](formal) to consider that something is true
- hold that…: I still hold that the government's economic policies are mistaken.
- hold somebody/something + adj.: Parents will be held responsible for their children's behaviour.
- be held to be something: These vases are held to be the finest examples of Greek art.
*accountable: responsible for your decisions or actions and expected to explain them when you are asked
38. Guidance counselor says he's been suspended twice for fighting.
*guidance counselor 辅导员
*[usually passive] suspend somebody (from something): to officially prevent somebody from doing their job, going to school, etc. for a time
39. Timeline is too mushy for reasonable doubt.
*timeline:a horizontal line that is used to represent time, with the past towards the left and the future towards the right
*too+adj. for something
40. We should be fighting for total exoneration.
*fight for something
*exoneration: the act of officially stating that somebody is not responsible for something that they have been blamed for
