正式宣告的判決
把秤的動作交給有權力的一方，結果就不只是意見，而是有效力的宣告：法庭這樣做，而人們談到報應時，用的也是同一套「有人在上面秤過並宣判」的語言。
court ruling · noun · B2
What a judge or a court of law officially decides.
判決
核心畫面
Picture a pair of scales: you put what you know on them, let them settle, and then say where they came down. The word covers the whole of that — the weighing, the skill of weighing well, and the verdict that comes out at the end. A courtroom does it officially; a person crossing a busy road does it in half a second.
可以想成：一副天平。你把手上知道的東西放上去，等它停下來，然後說出它偏向哪一邊。這個字把整件事都包了進去——秤的動作…更多收起
可以想成：一副天平。你把手上知道的東西放上去，等它停下來，然後說出它偏向哪一邊。這個字把整件事都包了進去——秤的動作、秤得準不準的能力，還有最後說出來的那個結論。法庭是把這件事正式化：證據上秤，然後宣判；而一個人過馬路時判斷來車還有多遠，做的是同一件事，只是半秒鐘就完成。From the picture
沒有規則時的裁量
當手冊上沒有寫、規則也幫不上忙時，只剩下你自己那副天平——這個說法就是用來標記「這一題沒有標準答案，得靠人來判斷」。
personal call to make · noun · B2
A choice you have to work out for yourself, because nothing in the situation tells you which answer is right.
臨場裁量的決定
Also in this word
considered opinion · noun · B2
An opinion you form about something, especially after thinking about it carefully.
看法／評斷
practical wisdom · noun · B2
Being able to work out sensibly what to do and when.
判斷力
原始詞典資料5 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。
judgmentnoun/ˈd͡ʒʌd͡ʒ.mənt/
- 1
The act of judging.
- The key to the situation was judgment of the role the railways could play in modern times.
- 2
The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.
- a man of judgment / a man of good judgment
- a politician without judgment
- 3
The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
- She in my judgment was as fair as you.
- Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck; And yet methinks I have astronomy […]
- 4
lawThe act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
- In judgments between the Rich and the Poor: it is not to be considered what the poor man needs, but what is his own
- Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment.
- 5
lifestylereligiontheologyThe final award; the last sentence.
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。