核心畫面

Picture a row of ordinary people sitting to one side, listening to everything and then deciding. They are not experts and they did not choose to be there; the point is that the decision is handed to a group of ordinary people rather than to one authority. Move that panel from a courtroom to a competition and the word travels with it.

可以想成:一排普通人坐在旁邊,把整件事聽完,然後做出決定。他們不是專家,也不是自己想來的;重點正在於此——這個決定被更多收起可以想成:一排普通人坐在旁邊,把整件事聽完,然後做出決定。他們不是專家,也不是自己想來的;重點正在於此——這個決定被交給一群普通人,而不是交給某一個權威。把這排人從法庭搬到比賽現場,這個字也跟著搬過去。

From the picture

還沒判下來

借用「陪審團還在裡面討論、判決還沒出來」這個畫面,用來說一件事目前還沒有定論。

the jury is out (undecided) · noun · B2

Used to say that something has not been decided yet, or that people cannot agree about it.

尚無定論

Also in this word

trial jury · noun · B2

A group of ordinary people, often twelve, who listen to a court case and decide if someone is guilty.

陪審團

competition judges · noun · B2

A group of people chosen to judge a competition and pick the winner.

評審團

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。

jurynoun詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒʊəɹi/

  • 1

    lawA group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law.

    • And so the jury and he approached, as if this were a time of peace instead of one of the greatest world disturbances ever known in history, the question whether the prosecution had proved to the jury’s satisfaction that George Joseph Smith was guilty of murder. The jury were the shield which stood between him and death, unless, to the jury’s satisfaction, he was proved to be guilty. Yet while they were the shield of the man accused, they were also the Sword of the State; and if the man were proved guilty, they were the servants of the State to punish him. Their respective functions were these: he the judge, had to settle the law, and the jury must take the law from him. The jury were judges of fact.
  • 2

    A group of judges in a competition.

  • 3

    slangentertainmentlifestyletheaterThe audience attending the first night of a performance, whose reaction may determine whether it succeeds or fails.

    • The jury which decides on the first night usually seals the fate of the season.
    • The widespread idea that before a first-night the audience, dressed to the nose, dines en masse at the Colony and proceeds elegantly to the scene in Hispanos is as fabulous as that which imagines it assembles at Lindy's delicatessen in yesterday's shirt and moves on to the theatre in garbage wagons. And no less spurious is the theory that, in either case or in both together, the jury is possessed of a remarkably rich acumen in the matter of theatrical values.

juryverb詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒʊəɹi/

  • 1

    To judge by means of a jury.

juryadj詞源 2/ˈd͡ʒʊəɹi/

  • 1

    nauticaltransportFor temporary use; applied to a temporary contrivance.

    • jury mast
    • jury rudder

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。