fifth amendment

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1. N-SING In American law, if someone takes the Fifth Amendment, they refuse to answer a question because they think it might show that they are guilty of a crime. You can also say that someone invokes, pleads, or claims the Fifth Amendment. 美國(guó)憲法第五條修正案; 公民可以依此條款拒絕回答提問(wèn)，以免陷入有罪指控的困境['the' N]
Enron Chairman and CEO Kenneth Lay took the Fifth Amendment during his congressional testimony. 安然董事會(huì)主席兼總監(jiān)肯尼迪·雷在國(guó)會(huì)聽(tīng)證會(huì)上使用了修正案第五條，拒絕回答問(wèn)題。