英语单词 | jury |
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英美音标 | ['dʒuəri] |
中文释义 | n.[律] 陪审团,评判委员会,陪审员 adj.[海]临时应急的 |
vocab简明 | A jury is a group that decides a contest or a court case together. If you get summoned for jury duty and get picked as one of the 12 members of the jury, you’ll help decide if someone guilty or not. |
vocab扩展 | A jury is any group that makes a group decision. In the County Fair, the stakes aren't so high — just respect for your baking skills or pig-raising talents. But many juries are convened by courts to decide whether someone is innocent or guilty. In this case, the jury is sworn to act according to the law. Jury comes from the Old French word for "oath," pointing to the promise to deliver the truth that a jury swears to. |
真题原句 | The high court’s decision said the judge in Mr. McDonnell’s trial failed to tell a jury that it must look only at his “official acts,” or the former governor’s decisions on “specific” and “unsettled” issues related to his duties. |
柯林斯星级 | ★★★☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT-COLL 可数集合名词]陪审团 In a court of law, the jury is the group of people who have been chosen from the general public to listen to the facts about a crime and to decide whether the person accused is guilty or not. [also
2 [N-COUNT-COLL 可数集合名词](竞赛的)评判委员会,裁判委员会 A jury is a group of people who choose the winner of a competition.
3 [PHRASE 短语](某事)悬而未决,仍未达成定论 If you say that the jury is out or that the jury is still out on a particular subject, you mean that people in general have still not made a decision or formed an opinion about that subject. [oft PHR
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来源 | 2017.4 |
Tags: 单词::2017
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