- 1交叉詰問（法庭上由對方律師盤問證人；台灣法律用語就叫交互詰問。日常引申為「被盤問、被拷問」）
Cross-examination is the part of a trial where a lawyer questions a witness brought in by the other side. That detail is the whole word: your own lawyer asks you friendly questions first, and then the opposing lawyer stands up and goes at the same story from every angle, hunting for the crack. So cross-examination means hard, testing, often uncomfortable questioning by someone who is not on your side — not just any questioning. It is a noun: "under cross-examination she changed her story", "the cross-examination lasted three hours". The phrase under cross-examination is worth learning whole, because that is how it usually turns up. Outside court, people borrow it, half-joking, for any : a reporter's questions to a minister, or a mother waiting up to ask her teenager exactly where he has been. Said that way it always carries a little complaint in it — the person being questioned feels treated like a suspect. The verb is cross-examine. Note that both words are formal and long; ordinary conversation would say "they really questioned him" or "she gave him the third degree".
From the word’s history
cross- + examination.
由 cross- 加上 examination 組成。
組成cross- + examination. Examination is questioning or close inspection; cross- carries the sense of going against, from the opposite side — the questions come across the courtroom from the other party. That cross- traces back through Old English cros and Old Norse kross to Latin crux, a cross.
同家族的字
- cross-examinethe verb this noun is built from
- examinationthe same examination — close questioning or testing
- examinethe verb inside it — to look at or question closely
- crucialthe same Latin crux, a cross — a crossing point where things are decided
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
cross-examinationnoun
- 1
lawThe interrogation or questioning of a witness by the party against whom they have been called and examined, in an attempt to prove or reveal something false or untold during direct examination.
- It is impossible to bring them here for cross-examination; one simply has to conduct one's defence and argue one's case against an invisible opponent, […]
- When Horsley finished his testimony, Richardson began the cross-examination, which was to last for twenty-six hours over the course of an entire week.
- 2
Any intense period of questioning, especially if hostile.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。