Because the criminal was a repeat offender, the judge threw the book at him with heavy fines and a long prison term.
由于那个罪犯是一名惯犯，于是法官决定从重量刑，科以高额的罚金及较长的邢期。One of my Catholic high school teachers was later revealed to be a repeat child molester. . . written up in the newspaper and everything.
一个天主教高中教师后来被曝光是猥亵儿童的惯犯，上了报纸等所有媒体。The Reverend Pat Robertson referred to me as Slick Willie and said I had a radical plan to destroy the American family.
帕特.罗伯逊牧师称我为“狡猾的威利（一个抢劫银行的惯犯）”，说我有一个毁掉美国家庭的激进计划。If the family tires of bailing out a repeatoffender, they can disown him, in which case he becomes an outlaw.
如果这个家族厌倦了救助一个惯犯，他们可以与他断绝关系，在这种情况下他就等于被剥夺了法律权利。Saturated fat, that familiar culprit, is no better for the brain than it is for the body.
饱和脂肪，这个惯犯，给大脑造成的损害比对身体的一点不少。Some words, like "man" , are very common. Some, like "recidivism" , make up a very long tail of words that are used less often.
像”man“（人）这样的词汇经常出现，而像”recidivism“（惯犯行为）这样的词尾较长的词汇则很少使用。Hope can be paralyzing, sir. We believe that the people who took Aimee Lynch have been doing this for a very long time.
希望有时让人麻痹，先生。我们认为绑架AimeeLynch的是伙惯犯，已经多次作案。This starts with recidivism. About two in three of the people California releases from prison end up right back in it.
这项改革从惯犯开始，在加州大约有三分之二的人在从监狱释放后结果又立即重新入狱。The main problem is not the first offender or the petty thief but the repeated offender who commits increasingly serious crimes.
主要的问题不是来自于初犯者或小偷小摸，而是来自于犯罪行为越来越严重的那些惯犯。