premeditation

基本解释

It suggests premeditation and epic willfulness, codified as inherited instinct.
它使人想到形成遗传本能的预谋和史诗般的固执。
She had admitted killing her husband, Robert, a banker at Merrill Lynch, on 2 November 2003, but denied murder, a charge that requires premeditation.
她承认在2003年11月2日杀死了自己的丈夫，Robert，一位美林的银行家。但是她拒绝谋杀指控，因为谋杀是需要有预谋的。
The matter was very simple. The woman had murdered her child; the infanticide was proved; the jury threw out the question of premeditation, and she was condemned for life.
这案子很简单，这妇人害死了自己的孩子，杀害婴孩罪被证明了，陪审团没有追查是否蓄意谋害，判了她无期徒刑。

By comparison, Diana Krall is guilty as charged: possession of an illegal quantity of premeditation and forethought while singing jazz.
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But I want to say that there has been no premeditation.
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Premeditation is thinking about something or planning it before you actually do it.