juries

英 [ˈdʒʊəriz]

美 [ˈdʒʊriz]

n.  陪审团; (比赛的)评判委员会，裁判委员会
jury的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT-COLL 陪审团
  In a court of law, thejuryis 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.
  1. The jury convicted Mr Hampson of all offences.
     陪审团裁定汉普森先生全部罪名成立。
  2. ...the tradition of trial by jury.
     由陪审团审判的惯例
• N-COUNT-COLL （竞赛的）评判委员会，裁判委员会
  Ajuryis a group of people who choose the winner of a competition.
  1. 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。
• PHRASE （某事）悬而未决，仍未达成定论
  If you say thatthe jury is outor thatthe jury is still outon a particular subject, you mean that people in general have still not made a decision or formed an opinion about that subject.
  1. The jury is out on whether or not this is true...
     这是否属实仍未得出定论。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• The premise behind these scheduling approaches is that juries on average respond systematically to evidence of plaintiffs'injuries.
  这些量化途径的前提条件是陪审团能够均等条理地对原告的损害做出反应。
• While they may have been publicly and socially viewed as inferior to men, Egyptian women enjoyed a great deal of legal and financial independence. They could buy and sell property, serve on juries, make wills and even enter into legal contracts.
  在人们眼中，埃及女性的地位不如男性，然而她们享有广泛的法定权利和财产自由，可以买卖财产、参加陪审、著立遗嘱及签订合约。
• It seems that deciding whether any memory is to be finally assessed as reliable or the treacherous ally of invention will largely remain a challenge for judges and juries.
  对法官和陪审团来说，断定记忆最终是可靠的事实还是不可靠的编造在很大程度上似乎仍然是个挑战。
• Judges and juries root for the underdog.
  法官和陪审团都倾向弱者。
• Civil matters are usually tried by Court of First Instance Judges sitting without juries, although there is a rarely used provision for jury trials in certain cases, including defamation.
  在审理民事案件时，通常不设陪审团，只由原讼法庭法官审理。某些案件如诽谤案的审讯，则可援引法律条文设立陪审团，但这项条文甚少引用。
• About the racial bias of juries, which one of the following statements is TRUE?
  关于陪审团的种族偏见，下列哪个陈述是正确的？
• However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries, but on the competition of other ideas.
  无论一个观点看上去是多么可恶有害，纠正它并不是靠法官和陪审团的良知，而是靠由其他观点战胜它。
• In courts of original jurisdiction, judges are usually provided with juries to decide all questions of fact.
  在最初管辖的法院，法官通常拥有陪审团来决定所有事实问题。
• Some believe these cases show English juries increasingly agree with the views of the accused.
  有人认为，这些案件表明，英国陪审团日益赞同被告的观点。
• Rather than sympathising with the political views of the accused, the juries may just be applying the law.
  陪审团并不是赞同被告的政治观点，他们只是在适用法律。