喜樂美語
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    A lawsuit is a fight you take to a court and ask a judge to settle — often about money, a contract, or someone getting hurt. You file a lawsuit against a person or a company. It is usually a civil case (two sides arguing), not the police charging someone with a crime; though actually, everyday speakers sometimes say “lawsuit” for any court fight. You bring or file a lawsuit; you do not “do a lawsuit,” and almost nobody uses it as a verb — the verb people really use is sue. The word is common in news. At home in Taiwan people say they are 打官司. It is a plain, slightly formal noun, not slang.

    官司（正式說法：訴訟）

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成law + suit. Suit here is the old meaning “a request you bring to a court,” not a set of clothes.

同家族的字

  • lawthe first half: the court side of the compound
  • suethe verb people actually use for starting this kind of court fight

原始詞典資料2 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。

lawsuitnoun/ˈlɔːˌs(j)uːt/

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    lawIn civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution.

    • The lawyer advised his client against filing a lawsuit as it would take a lot of time and money to resolve.
    • My ex-fiancé filed a lawsuit against me for a false restraining order and defamation.

lawsuitverb/ˈlɔːˌs(j)uːt/

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    To bring a lawsuit.

    • The master, said Thady, lawsuited against the tenants […]

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。