courts

NOUN USES 名词用法

1. N-COUNT 法院;法庭;审判庭
   A court is a place where legal matters are decided by a judge and jury or by a magistrate.
   1. At this rate, we could find ourselves in the divorce courts!
      照这样下去，我们会为离婚闹上法院！
   2. ...a county court judge...
      县法院的法官
   3. He was deported on a court order following a conviction for armed robbery...
      法庭宣判其持械抢劫罪名成立后他被驱逐出境。
   4. The 28-year-old striker was in court last week for breaking a rival player's jaw.
      那名28岁的前锋因造成对方一名球员下颌骨折，上周出庭受审。
2. N-COUNT 全体出庭人员;(尤指)全体审判人员
   You can refer to the people in a court, especially the judge, jury, or magistrates, as a court .
   1. A court at Tampa, Florida has convicted five officials on drugs charges.
      佛罗里达州坦帕市法庭判决5名官员的毒品交易罪名成立。
3. N-COUNT (网球、篮球、羽毛球或壁球等的)球场
   A court is an area in which you play a game such as tennis, basketball, badminton, or squash.
   1. The hotel has several tennis and squash courts...
      该酒店有几个网球场和壁球场。
   2. She watched a few of the games while waiting to go on court.
      她在等待上场时观看了几场比赛。
4. N-COUNT 王宫;宫殿;宫廷
   The court of a king or queen is the place where he or she lives and carries out ceremonial or administrative duties.
   1. She came to visit England, where she was presented at the court of James I...
      她来到英国访问，在詹姆士一世的王宫受到了接见。
   2. Their family was certainly well regarded at court.
      他们家族在宫廷中无疑颇受敬重。
5. N-IN-NAMES (用于大型宅第和公寓街区的名称中)宅第，宅邸，公寓大楼
   In Britain, Court is used in the names of large houses and blocks of flats.
   1. ...7 Ivebury Court, Latimer Rd, London W10 6RA.
      伦敦西区10号第6街区拉蒂默路艾夫伯里7号公寓大楼
6. See also: Crown Court High Court kangaroo court
7. PHRASE （对…）提起诉讼
   If you go to court or take someone to court, you take legal action against them.
   1. They have received at least twenty thousand pounds each but had gone to court to demand more.
      他们每人至少已经得到了两万英镑，但仍然向法庭提出诉讼要求获得更多。
   2. ...members of trade associations who want to take bad debtors to court.
      那些想要把无力偿付的债务人告上法庭的同业公会成员
8. V PHR 发表意见的机会
   Your day in court is your chance to give your side of an argument or other matter.
   1. He knew that this would be his day in court — his last chance to explain why he acted as he did...
      他知道这是他为自己辩解的机会，是他能够解释自己为何如此行事的最后机会。
   2. We knew from the very beginning that it was a question of freedom of speech. All we wanted was our day in court.
      我们从一开始就知道这是言论自由的问题。我们只要求有发表意见的机会。
9. PHRASE (因为有趣或出名)引人注目，被人围观
   If someone holds court in a place, they are surrounded by a lot of people who are paying them a lot of attention because they are interesting or famous.
   1. ...in the days when Marlene Dietrich and Ernest Hemingway held court in the famous El Floridita club.
      当马琳·黛德丽和欧内斯特·海明威在埃尔·佛罗利迪达俱乐部名噪一时的时候
10. PHRASE (因观点或想法可笑而)对…一笑置之，对…不予考虑
    If you laugh someone out of court, you say that their opinions or ideas are so ridiculous that they are not worth considering.
    1. It's easy for a younger generation of critics to laugh Limon out of court...
       年轻一代的批评家很容易对利蒙的观点一笑置之。
    2. Polytechnic lecturers have asked for 12.5 per cent, a claim sure to be laughed out of court.
       理工学校的讲师要求12.5%，这一要求肯定不会予以考虑。
11. PHRASE 庭外;不经法院
    If a legal matter is decided or settled out of court, it is decided without legal action being taken in a court of law.
    1. The Government is anxious to keep the whole case out of court.
       政府迫切希望整件事能够在庭外解决。
    2. ...a payment of two million pounds in an out of court settlement.
       经庭外和解支付200万英镑

VERB USES 动词用法

1. VERB (为使某人、团体或国家按自己的意愿做某事而)试图取悦，讨好
   To court a particular person, group, or country means to try to please them or improve your relations with them, often so that they will do something that you want them to do.
   1. Both Democratic and Republican parties are courting former supporters of Ross Perot...
      民主党和共和党都在极力拉拢罗斯·佩罗以前的支持者。
   2. Stars are courted by manufacturers who value their influence on style-conscious fans.
      生产商竞相讨好明星，他们看重的是明星对追求时尚的追星族的影响力。
2. VERB 试图获得，追求(关注或声望)
   If you court something such as publicity or popularity, you try to attract it.
   1. Having spent a lifetime avidly courting publicity, Paul has suddenly become secretive.
      保罗一生都在想方设法出风头，现在却突然行事低调了。
   2. ...his ability to get things done, usually by manipulating, courting favour or cleverly finding a way around opponents.
      他的神通广大通常靠暗中操纵、讨取恩惠或巧妙地避开对手等手段
3. VERB 招致，酿成，导致(不愉快的事)
   If you court something unpleasant such as disaster or unpopularity, you act in a way that makes it likely to happen.
   1. If he thinks he can remain in power by force he is courting disaster...
      如果他认为可以通过武力继续掌权，那他就是在自寻死路。
   2. They argue that the commission should risk courting unpopularity and push on with its legislative programmes.
      他们认为委员会应该甘冒不受欢迎的风险来推进其立法项目。
4. V-RECIP 追求(异性)；向…求爱;恋爱
   If you are courting someone of the opposite sex, you spend a lot of time with them, because you are intending to get married. You can also say that a man and a woman are courting .
   1. I was courting Billy at 19 and married him when I was 21...
      我19岁开始追求比利，21岁嫁给了他。
   2. Derek criticised every aspect of Pauline's behaviour, something he had never done when they were courting.
      德里克对保利娜的行为举止百般挑剔，恋爱时他可从没这样做过。
   3. ...an isolated spot popular with courting couples.
      热恋情侣们都喜欢去的僻静之所

1. In the absence of a will the courts decide who the guardian is.
   在没有遗嘱的情况下，由法庭指定监护人。
2. British courts are increasingly moving away from sending young offenders to prison
   英国法院渐渐地不再将少年犯送进监狱。
3. The courts take too long and going to the police is a bother
   打官司耗时太久，去找警察也很麻烦。
4. Courts in Scotland have ruled it illegal to clamp a car parked on private ground and then to demand a fine.
   苏格兰法院裁定，将停在私人地界上的车辆上夹钳并索要罚款的行为是违法的。
5. Most tennis is played on hard courts, but a substantial amount is played on clay
   多数网球比赛在硬地球场上举行，不过也有相当数量的比赛在红土球场上进行。
6. At this rate, we could find ourselves in the divorce courts!
   照这样下去，我们会为离婚闹上法院！
7. The hotel has several tennis and squash courts
   该酒店有几个网球场和壁球场。
8. This Human Rights Act is enforceable in the ordinary courts.
   这项《人权法案》适用于普通法庭。
9. Let us at least see our courts make an example of these despicable criminals.
   至少让我们看到法庭惩罚这些十恶不赦的罪犯以儆效尤。
10. Watkins sued the Army and fought his case in various courts for 10 years
    沃特金斯将军队诉至法院，并在各级法庭打了10年的官司。
11. He drove through the gracious suburbs with the swimming pools and tennis courts.
    他驾车穿过设有游泳池和网球场的舒适城郊住宅区。
12. In a just society there must be a system whereby people can seek redress through the courts
    在一个公正的社会中，一定会有一套人们可以通过法庭寻求赔偿的体制。
13. She would never resort to the law courts to resolve her marital problems.
    她无论如何不会上法庭解决婚姻问题。
14. The proposals before the legislature include the creation of two special courts to deal exclusively with violent crimes.
    呈交立法机关的提案内容包括成立两个专门审理暴力犯罪的特别法庭。
15. The palace has extensive gardens, a maze, and tennis courts.
    这座宫殿有几座大花园、一处迷宫和几个网球场。
16. The courts will be asked to place a monetary value on his unfinished career.
    将要求法院对他未竟的事业进行资产评估。
17. The bill leaves it up to the courts to decide what is obscene.
    依据该法案，淫秽物的界定权在法庭。
18. The price for indoor courts is £ 10 per hour at peak times and £ 7 per hour at off-peak times.
    室内球场的价格在高峰时段为每小时10英镑，非高峰时段为每小时7英镑。
19. Fewer than 10 percent of applicants are granted political asylum by German courts.
    申请政治庇护者中，只有不到10%获得了德国法庭批准。
20. How many judges in our male-dominated courts are sensitized to women's issues?
    在男性占主导地位的法庭上，有多少法官对妇女问题是比较敏感的呢？
21. He tried to prevent union money from being sequestrated by the courts.
    他试图阻止法院扣押工会的资产。
22. A lot of people think that they're not going to get a fair shake from the courts.
    很多人认为他们在法庭上不会受到公平的审判。
23. He will take up his post as the head of the civil courts at the end of next month.
    他将在下个月底就任民事法庭庭长一职。
24. Uncorroborated confessions should no longer be accepted by courts.
    没有证据证实的供词不应再被法庭采用。
25. Persistent criminals who have gone unpunished by the courts have been dealt with by local people
    没有受到法庭制裁的惯犯被当地人处治了。
26. Courts have been reluctant to reopen old wounds by trying crimes that are decades old.
    法院不愿重揭旧伤疤，去审理几十年前的罪案。
27. Superior courts may review decisions of lower courts.
    高级法院可复审下级法院的判决。
28. Love lives in cottages as well as in courts.; Poor or rich, love first.
    爱情不分贫富。
29. Courts are constituted by law.
    法院是依法建立的。
30. The courts administer the law.
    法院执行法律。