premeditation

基本解釋

It suggests premeditation and epic willfulness, codified as inherited instinct.
它使人想到形成遺傳本能的預謀和史詩般的固執(zhí)。
She had admitted killing her husband, Robert, a banker at Merrill Lynch, on 2 November 2003, but denied murder, a charge that requires premeditation.
她承認在2003年11月2日殺死了自己的丈夫，Robert，一位美林的銀行家。但是她拒絕謀殺指控，因為謀殺是需要有預謀的。
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.
這案子很簡單，這婦人害死了自己的孩子，殺害嬰孩罪被證明了，陪審團沒有追查是否蓄意謀害，判了她無期徒刑。

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.