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Oyez is an old call that means, in effect, “Listen, all of you.” Town criers used to ring a bell and shout it three times — “Oyez, oyez, oyez!” — before they read the news in the street. Court officers used it too, and though it sounds like something from a history book, some courts still cry it when a session starts. It is very formal, even a bit theatrical; you would never use it to get a friend’s attention. People often hear it as “oh yes,” and some even say it that way, but that is an old mix-up, not what the word is doing.
聽啊！（舊時街頭公告或法庭開場的喊語）
組成From Middle English oyes, from Old French oyez, the imperative plural of oir (“to hear; to listen”), from Latin audīre. People later heard it as “O yes,” which is a folk mix-up, though that is how some still pronounce it.
原始詞典資料3 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。
oyezintj/ˈəʊˌjeɪ/
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Hear ye. Attend. (Called by public criers or in court usually three times to secure silence or attentiveness).
- “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The Banquet is now ready!” called the two Beef Eaters, and in no time at all Palmer Cox’s resourceful Brownies had found a seat for every guest.
oyeznoun/ˈəʊˌjeɪ/
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A cry of oyez.
oyezverb/ˈəʊˌjeɪ/
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rareTo proclaim with a cry of oyez.
- I truſte you make no queſtion about thoſe dull pated pennifathers, that in ſuch dudgen ſcorne reiected him, drunck deep of the ſowre cup of repentance for it, when the high flight of his lines in common brute was ooyeſſed.
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。