英 [səˌspendɪd ˈsentəns] 美 [səˌspendɪd ˈsentəns]
缓刑：在法律上的一种安排，即对于被判犯有罪行的人不判处监禁，但如果在特定期限内再次犯罪，可能会被判处之前犯罪的刑罚。
suspended sentence //
可数名词 If a criminal is given a suspended sentence, they are given a prison sentence which they have to serve if they commit another crime within a specified period of time. 缓刑
John was given a four-month suspended sentence.
约翰被判缓刑4个月。
A suspended sentence is a legal term for a judge's delaying of a defendant's serving of a sentence after they have been found guilty, in order to allow the defendant to perform a period of probation. If the defendant does not break the law during that period, and fulfills the particular conditions of the probation, the judge usually throws out the sentence.
缓刑-引用次数：18
参考来源缓刑执行制度研究（研究生论文）
一、缓刑制度的起源及我国缓刑制度的现状 缓刑(suspended sentence),是指对被判处一定刑罚的犯罪分子,在一定期间内附条件不 执行原判刑罚的一种刑罚制度。
... remand center 未成年犯羁押候审中心 suspended sentence 缓期处刑(延期科处刑法，除非罪犯另犯罪或违反法庭另行规定的条件) arson 纵火罪 ...
...间2月27日消息，荷兰地方法院今日对前荷兰国家队主帅希汀克的偷税行为作出判决，希汀克将被处6个月暂缓监禁(suspended sentence)的刑事处罚和4万5千欧元的罚款，由于在受处罚人表现良好的情况下，暂缓监禁可以解除，事实上希汀克已经基本山免除了牢狱之灾。
芬兰3名青少年因在2007年实施网络黑客犯罪行为（hacker crimes），被分别判处监禁缓期执行（suspended sentence）和罚款。
[法]缓刑；缓期处刑
John was given a four-month suspended sentence.
约翰被判缓刑4个月。
The judge gave him a nine-month suspended sentence.
法官判处他有期徒刑九个月，缓期执行。
Jassin was sentenced to a one year suspended sentence.
雅辛被判处一年缓刑。
A week later, he pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving an accident and was given a two-month suspended sentence.
VOA : special.2009.09.13
He pleaded guilty to leaving the scene and received a suspended sentence.
VOA : special.2009.08.29
He received a three-year suspended sentence in 2007 for publishing jokes on politics, religion and sex.
In the end, the five-year sentence was harsher than the three-year suspended sentence newspapers had predicted.
Amir's lawyer Henry Blaxland argued for a suspended sentence that would allow his immediate release.