| 单词 | trial |
| 释义 | trial /truy"euhl, truyl/, n. 1. Law. a. the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact. b. the determination of a person's guilt or innocence by due process of law. 2. the act of trying, testing, or putting to the proof. 3. test; proof. 4. an attempt or effort to do something. 5. a tentative or experimental action in order to ascertain results; experiment. 6. the state or position of a person or thing being tried or tested; probation. 7. subjection to suffering or grievous experiences; a distressed or painful state: comfort in the hour of trial. 8. an affliction or trouble. 9. a trying, distressing, or annoying thing or person. 10. Ceram. a piece of ceramic material used to try the heat of a kiln and the progress of the firing of its contents. 11. on trial, a. undergoing examination before a judicial tribunal. b. undergoing a probationary or trial period. adj. 12. of, pertaining to, or employed in a trial. 13. done or made by way of trial, proof, or experiment. 14. used in testing, experimenting, etc. 15. acting or serving as a sample, experimental specimen, etc.: a trial offer. [1520-30; TRY + -AL2] Syn. 2, 3, 5. examination. TRIAL, EXPERIMENT, TEST imply an attempt to find out something or to find out about something. TRIAL is the general word for a trying of anything: articles sent for ten days' free trial. EXPERIMENT is a trial conducted to prove or illustrate the truth or validity of something, or an attempt to discover something new: an experiment in organic chemistry. TEST is a more specific word, referring to a trial under approved and fixed conditions, or a final and decisive trial as a conclusion of past experiments: a test of a new type of airplane. 4. endeavor, essay, struggle. 7. grief, tribulation, distress, sorrow, trouble, hardship. See affliction. |
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