abolish，repeal均有废止和取消的含义。

区别：

abolish指完全废除制度、风俗、习惯等，如abolish slavery/ignorance (废除奴隶制，扫除愚昧)等

repeal主要用于撤销或废除法规、命令、许可等，如 repeal an amendment (废除修正案)等

例With regard to recommendations to abolish the death penalty, pursuant to the revised federal criminal code, the death penalty was only applied for exceptionally grave crimes, and actual executions rarely occurred, amounting to a de facto moratorium.

参考译文：关于废除死刑的建议，根据修订的联邦刑法，死刑只用于极端严重的罪行，实际上已极少执行死刑，等于在事实上暂停死刑。

例To review and, where appropriate, revise, amend or abolish any laws, regulations, policies, practices and customs that discriminate against women or have a discriminatory impact on women, and to ensure that provisions of multiple legal systems, where they exist, comply with international human rights obligations, commitments and principles, in particular the principle of non-discrimination.

参考译文：审查并酌情修订、修正或废除任何歧 视妇 女或对妇女有歧视性影响的法 律、条例、政策、做法和习俗；如果存在多种法律制度，确保这些制度的规定符 合国际人权义务、承诺和原则，特别是不歧视原则。

例 To effectuate necessary adjustments in order to preserve each Party's economic benefit under this Agreement on a basis no less favorable than the economic benefit it would have received if such law, regulation, decree or rule had not been adopted, amended, repealed or so interpreted or implemented.

参考译文：做出必要的调整，以保持各方在本协议项下的经济利益，使之不逊于各方在该等法律、法规、法令或条例未通过、未修改、未废除、未做出不同的解释或未采取不同的实施方法之前所能获得的经济利益。

例 At that session, the Assembly called for the immediate repeal of unilateral extraterritorial laws that imposed sanctions on companies and nationals of other States, and called upon all States not to recognize unilateral extraterritorial coercive economic measures or legislative acts imposed by any State (resolution 51/22).

参考译文：大会该届会议要求立即废除对他国公司和国民采取强制性制裁的单方面 治外法律；吁请所有国家不承认任何国家单方面强加的治外强制性经济措施或立法(第 51/22 号决议)。