contempt of court

基本解释

Prisoners may vote if they are doing time for non-payment of fines or, strangely, contempt of court.
如果犯人服刑只是因未曾交纳罚款或是被莫名其妙地指控为藐视法庭，那他们理应有投票的权利。
In a speech in 2003 he noted that over the preceding year more than 70 contempt-of-court cases had been considered sufficiently serious to warrant investigation by his office.
在2003年的一番演说中他指出，就在去年，有70余件“蔑视法庭”的案件足够严重到可以批准调查。
I was sentenced to five days for contempt of court and now everybody thinks I'm a jail-bird.
我因蔑视法庭被判了5天刑，结果现在大家都认为我是一个囚犯。

He has also been barred from taking part in the parliamentary elections because of a contempt-of-court charge against him.
ECONOMIST: Kazakhstan
Meanwhile, on November 3rd, the Supreme Court threatened contempt-of-court proceedings against Mr Sharif over his handling of the court-enlargement affair.
ECONOMIST: Pakistan

Contempt of court is the criminal offence of disobeying an instruction from a judge or a court of law.