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

• 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？
• Though juries now draw members from all sectors of society, social problems like discrimination can still distort their fairness.
  虽然现在陪审团是从社会各阶层抽取成员，但一些社会问题诸如对某一群体的歧视，仍然会扭曲它的公正性。
• I sympathise with his indignation over tomorrownow but he should leave it to judges and juries to dispense justice.
  我理解他对tomorrownow的愤慨，但伸张正义的职责应当由法官和陪审团来履行。
• 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 court witnesses are asked to give evidence about events, and judges and juries assess its reliability.
  在法庭上，要求目击者为案件提供证据，由法官和陪审团判断其可靠性。
• Good-looking criminals are more likely to win the sympathy of judges and juries.
  长得好的罪犯比较容易获得法官与陪审团的同情。
• But he is wary of filming witnesses, and draws the line at juries.
  然而，他很担心证人入镜，也不允许陪审团被拍摄。
• For example, he complains about the "stark unpredictability" of the punitive damages that lawyers often urge juries to impose.
  例如，律师们经常督促陪审团对诉讼对手处以惩罚性的损失赔偿，而苏特则抱怨这里面存在着“彻头彻尾的不可预见性”。
• 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。
• Judges and juries root for the underdog.
  法官和陪审团都倾向弱者。