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An arraignment is the court hearing where a person is brought in, told the charge, and asked to answer guilty or not guilty. That is the event (a noun); the verb is . In the United States this is a named, early step, often quite short, before the long trial. Taiwan's courts do not copy that American script one-for-one, so you will mostly meet the English word in news about other countries. Like , it is legal and formal, not everyday talk.
提訊(程序)、過堂
組成From arraign + -ment (the act or the hearing).
同家族的字
- arraignthe verb this noun is built from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
arraignmentnoun/əˈɹeɪnmənt/
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lawThe formal charging of a defendant with an offense; in many jurisdictions it includes their response in the form of a plea, typically as guilty, not guilty, or no contest.
- This process, Mr. Rothfeld said, could be interrupted at any moment if prosecutors in Los Angeles successfully extradite him for an arraignment on the sexual assault charges there.
- […]— the indictment will remain sealed until his expected arraignment on Tuesday, when the charges will be formally revealed.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。