a misdemeanor

基本解释

Committing a forgery is a felony, but driving an automobile in excess of the speed limit is a misdemeanor.
进行伪造是犯重罪，但超速驾驶属于轻罪。
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It was passed unanimously by the Las Vegas City Council as part of a bill making it a misdemeanor to go to the bathroom in public.
这条法令由拉斯维加斯市理事会全体成员一致通过，它与在公共场所洗澡将被处以轻罪的法令同属一法案。
“It was a misdemeanor, ” I said.
“那是不正当的行当儿，”我说。

A person with less than twenty-eight grams will now be charged with an infraction instead of a misdemeanor.
That did not stop him from appearing in a Miami court recently to defend a teenager facing misdemeanor drug charges.
Now Martinez is expanding a pro bono program, where Ben Reiss and about two dozen other private attorneys are working misdemeanor and felony cases.

He cut a deal with prosecutors, agreeing to cooperate and to plead guilty to a misdemeanor.
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