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

• Well, juries don't always rely on facts alone to convict.
  哈，陪审团不总是仅仅按事实来判案的。
• 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。
• 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。
• Judges and juries root for the underdog.
  法官和陪审团都倾向弱者。
• President Obama said he does not favor limits on the amount of money juries can award in malpractice lawsuits.
  奥巴马总统说，他并不赞成对陪审团能够为医疗事故判定多少赔偿金设立上限。
• This argument seems to show a pitiful lack of confidence in the capabilities of our juries.
  这一论点似乎表现出对我们陪审团能力的极度不信任，而这种不信任是可悲的。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• Grand juries have enormous powers to investigate wrong-doing by public officials as well as private citizens.
  大陪审团拥有极大权力调查政府官员及平民的过失。