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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• But, juries can get bored or frustrated with cases that are technical or complicated.
  但是，陪审员能在遇到技术性或复杂性案件时变得厌倦或沮丧。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• Other plants will have great years, some may even have no juries at all, measured injuries.
  其它工厂将会有丰收的年份，有些甚至没有上报的伤情。
• It highlights the propensity of juries to award huge damages in intellectual-property disputes.
  也突出了在知识产权纠纷中陪审团的巨额赔偿的倾向。