trial

英 ['traɪəl] 美['traɪəl]

近义词court case

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复数: trials;

trial 审判，审理，试验，试用，选拔赛，比赛

来自 try,甄选，选出，尝试，审理，-al,名词后缀。引申诸相关词义。

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.: 据我所知，他在报道中毫不留情地批评了初审法官。

2. They called for the return of internment without trial for terrorists.: 他们呼吁对恐怖分子重新实施不经审讯即行拘留政策。

3. His trial revived memories of French suffering during the war.: 他的受审重新勾起了在战争中受苦受难的法国人民的回忆。

4. The defence counsel warned that the judge should stop the trial.: 被告辩护律师强烈建议法官应该休庭。

5. They floated the trial balloon of actually cutting Social Security.: 他们推出了真正削减社会保障的试行方案。