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单词 trial
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trial

/ˈtrʌɪəl /
noun
1A formal examination of evidence by a judge, typically before a jury, in order to decide guilt in a case of criminal or civil proceedings: the newspaper accounts of the trial [mass noun]: the editor was summoned to stand trial for libel...
  • In both civil and criminal trials, appeals courts strongly defer to a jury's decision to believe one witness rather than another.
  • They can hold people in contempt of court, and when litigants consent, magistrate judges can preside at civil jury trials.
  • Nullification is a byproduct of the robust right of criminal defendants to a trial by jury.

Synonyms

court case, case, lawsuit, suit, hearing, enquiry, tribunal, litigation, judicial proceedings, legal proceedings, proceedings, legal action;
court martial;
appeal, retrial
2A test of the performance, qualities, or suitability of someone or something: clinical trials must establish whether the new hip replacements are working...
  • Instead they voted for a full gyratory system for a trial period of three months.
  • In our view one month into the trial period is too soon to have a valid comment.
  • Ideally, all drugs used to treat children would be subject to quality clinical research and trials to be authorised for use in children.

Synonyms

test, try-out, experiment, pilot study;
examination, check, assessment, evaluation, appraisal;
trial/test period, trial/test run, probation, testing, dummy run;
audition, screen test
informal dry run
technical assay
2.1A sports match to test the ability of players eligible for selection to a team: he cracked his ankle the week before the final trial...
  • Lane and the national selectors confirmed the squad on Saturday evening after the trial match involving 41 players.
  • He had won the World championship and had qualified for Athens too, but did not make the Australian team after the selection trials.
  • Another Aboriginal athlete vying for selection at the Olympic trials in August will be Patrick Johnson from the Umpila tribe of north Queensland.
2.2A test of individual ability on a motorcycle over rough ground or on a road.After the war, I started racing motorcycles and riding in trials, but while I was reasonable I wasn't good enough to satisfy myself, and so I concentrated on my business....
  • A leading footpath campaigner said the motorcycle trials was a separate issue but still needed to be considered by the inspector.
  • The aim is to discover Britain's best over four fields: trials, motocross, supermoto and road racing.
2.3 (trials) An event in which horses, dogs, or other animals compete or perform: horse trials...
  • The bulls have to compete in feed efficiency trials as young animals before they get into the bull studs.
  • She made her yearly trek east in February, to compete in horse trials leading up to the big three-days.
  • Johnston won three of this year's recognised trials with horses who were not entered for the big race.
3A person, experience, or situation that tests a person’s endurance or forbearance: the trials and tribulations of married life...
  • I had the pleasure of speaking to Schneider and inquiring about the trials and tribulations that he's experienced in his career.
  • Tracey herself knows first-hand about the trials and tribulations of putting on shows that are both erotic and comic.
  • Forget about the trials and tribulations of dealing with the complex emotions of the average human (or, even worse, having to deal with your own emotional mood swings).

Synonyms

nuisance, pest, bother, irritant, source of irritation/annoyance, worry, problem, inconvenience, vexation, plague, source of aggravation, thorn in one's flesh, the bane of one's life, one's cross to bear;
bore
informal pain, pain in the neck, pain in the backside, headache, drag, pill, nightmare
Scottish informal skelf
North American informal pain in the butt, nudnik, burr under/in someone's saddle
Australian informal fair cow
British informal, dated blister
vulgar slang pain in the arse
trouble, worry, anxiety, burden, affliction, ordeal, tribulation, adversity, hardship, tragedy, trauma, reverse, setback, difficulty, problem, misfortune, bad luck, stroke of bad luck, ill fortune, mishap, misadventure;
suffering, distress, misery, wretchedness, unhappiness, sadness, woe, grief, pain
informal hassle
archaic travails
verb (trials, trialling, trialled; US trials, trialing, trialed)
1 [with object] Test (something, especially a new product) to assess its suitability or performance: teachers all over the UK are trialling the materials...
  • It says it has been trialing the product with rival operators for some months now.
  • Before final publication approximately 300 children and their teachers at ten schools piloted the ideas in the pack, and 21 schools have trialled the finished product.
  • It is initially trialing its product with 1,000 rural users and has a 10,000 users expansion target.

Synonyms

test, try out, carry out trials on, put to the test, put through its paces, experiment with;
pilot
technical assay
2 [no object] (Of a horse, dog, or other animal) compete in trials: the pup trialled on Saturday...
  • This is a ‘must have’ book for anyone who has an interest in sheep dog trialling.
  • Whangamomona also sees endurance riding, dog trialling, and the Great New Zealand Horse Trek which was held last year.
  • But Westmorland Gazette sheep dog correspondent Elaine Hill said it was very rare that dog trialling interfered with wildlife and that few if any people were genuinely concerned about the impact of the Hunting Bill on the sport.

Phrases

on trial

trial and error

Origin

Late Middle English (as a noun): from Anglo-Norman French, or from medieval Latin triallum. The verb dates from the 1980s.

  • try from Middle English:

    From Old French trier ‘to sift’, source also of trial (early 16th century). In rugby an act of touching the ball down behind the opposing goal line has been called a try since the 1840s. It got its name because a try gives the scoring side the right to try to kick a goal. The cliché try anything once, dates from the 1920s. The British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham (1879–1961) is generally credited with ‘You should try everything once except incest and morris dancing’, but the composer Sir Arnold Bax reported a similar comment in a 1943 autobiography.

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