0 to officially accuse someone of committing a crime in a law court, or (of a lawyer) to try to prove that a person accused of committing a crime is guilty of that crime -- 起诉；检举
The victim has said that she will not prosecute. 受害者说她不会起诉。
Any manufacturer who does not conform to the standards could be prosecuted under the Consumers Protection Act, 1987. 对任何不遵守标准的生产商都可依据1987年通过的《消费者保护法》予以起诉。
He was prosecuted for fraud. 他因诈骗而被起诉。
Shoplifters will be prosecuted. 商店扒手将遭到起诉。
1 to continue to take part in a planned group of activities, especially a war -- 把…进行到底，继续参与（尤指战争）
This would conveniently gloss over the immunity they enjoyed and the dissatisfaction of individual victims who demanded the right to prosecute.
This occurs only when the judicial system is highly inefficient, in the sense that the probability of being prosecuted lies below a threshold level.
It also tends to favour the more spectacular and public criminal purge prosecuted through the special purge courts.
Such documentary evidence forms an imperfect measure of the actual incidence of corruption, since many incidents are never discovered or prosecuted, especially in corrupt environments.
He led the resurgent postwar opposition and was twice prosecuted for seditious libel.
Of the 21 bakers prosecuted by the vice-chancellor between 1600 and 1602, only 6 appeared just once.
The failure to prosecute landholders responsible for the violence ' may have heightened political polarization, armed conflict, and disenchantment with the government ' (p. 161).
How this revolution was to be prosecuted was never systematically discussed, nor were other options explored.
