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英语单词 jury
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.
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[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 by N]
  • The jury convicted Mr Hampson of all offences.

    陪审团裁定汉普森先生全部罪名成立。

  • ...the tradition of trial by jury.

    由陪审团审判的惯例

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[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.
  • I am not surprised that the Booker Prize jury included it on their shortlist.

    我毫不惊讶布克奖评委会将其列在入选名单中。

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[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 on wh/n]
  • The jury is out on whether or not this is true...

    这是否属实仍未得出定论。

  • The jury is still out on what kind of solutions we might undertake.

    尚未确定我们可能采取何种解决办法。

来源 2017.4

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