magistrate

n.

地方法官，治安官；文职官员；治安推事；

复数：magistrates

1. The thief was brought before the magistrate.
   窃贼被带到地方法官前受审。
2. The magistrate remanded him in custody for two weeks.
   法官命令把他拘留两星期。
3. The President is the chief magistrate of the United States.
   总统是美国的最高行政官。

The district magistrate in late imperial China
The District Magistrate in Late Imperial China
The District Magistrate in Late Imperial China by John R. Watt
Questions as a mode of control in magistrates' courts.
Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth Century Mexico by William B. Taylor (review)
The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth–Century Ch'ing China. By Madeleine Zelin
Kilpatrick Townsend’s Brian Epps Selected Federal Magistrate Judge
Diversion from custody. I: Psychiatric assessment at the magistrates' court.
Contain the Wealthy and Patrol the Magistrates: Restoring Elite Accountability to Popular Government
Mental illness and intellectual disability in Magistrates Courts in New South Wales, Australia