trial

英 ['tra??l] 美['tra??l]

近義詞court case

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復數:?trials;

trial 審判，審理，試驗，試用，選拔賽，比賽

來自 try,甄選，選出，嘗試，審理，-al,名詞后綴。引申諸相關詞義。

trial (n.): mid-15c., "act or process of testing, a putting to proof by examination, experiment, etc.," from Anglo-French trial, noun formed from triet "to try" (see try (v.)). Sense of "examining and deciding of the issues between parties in a court of law" is first recorded 1570s; extended to any ordeal by 1590s. As an adjectival phrase, trial-and-error is recorded from 1806. Trial balloon (1826) translates French ballon d'essai, a small balloon sent up immediately before a manned ascent to determine the direction and tendency of winds in the upper air, though the earliest use in English is figurative.

1. I gather his report is highly critical of the trial judge.: 據我所知，他在報道中毫不留情地批評了初審法官。

2. They called for the return of internment without trial for terrorists.: 他們呼吁對恐怖分子重新實施不經審訊即行拘留政策。

3. His trial revived memories of French suffering during the war.: 他的受審重新勾起了在戰爭中受苦受難的法國人民的回憶。

4. The defence counsel warned that the judge should stop the trial.: 被告辯護律師強烈建議法官應該休庭。

5. They floated the trial balloon of actually cutting Social Security.: 他們推出了真正削減社會保障的試行方案。