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To prejudge someone or something is to make up your mind before you have the facts — and the word is not kind. It says you closed the door too soon. You can prejudge a person, a plan, or a court case. It is more formal than jump to conclusions, and it carries a feel: we use it when we . Though actually, in everyday talk people often just say don’t judge for the same idea; prejudge shows up more in careful writing, news, and the law, where deciding too early can really hurt someone.
預先論斷;未審先判
組成Borrowed from Middle French préjuger, from Latin praeiudicare, to judge beforehand. It is a doublet of the rarer English word prejudicate.
同家族的字
- judgethe basic verb of deciding
- prejudicean unfair opinion formed too early — same Latin ‘judge beforehand’ family
- prejudgmentthe noun: that early opinion itself
原始詞典資料1 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。
prejudgeverb
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To form a judgment of (something) in advance.
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。