首页英语词典courtcourt的意思

court

英 [kɔːt] 美[kɔrt]

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近义词field playground enclosure yard

n. 法院；球场；朝廷；奉承
vt. 招致（失败、危险等）；向…献殷勤；设法获得
vi. 求爱
n. (Court)人名；(英)考特；(法)库尔

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词态变化

复数: courts;第三人称单数: courts;过去式: courted;过去分词: courted;现在分词: courting;

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（记）谐音“夸她” 。联想夸她为了献殷勤。

中文词源

court 宫廷，法庭

来自co-, 强调。-hort, 庭院，词源同yard, garden. 原指王室宫廷，后词义外延不断扩大。

英英释意

1. an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

2. the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state

3. a specially marked area within which a game is played;: "players had to reserve a court in advance"

4. a room in which a law court sits;: "television cameras were admitted in the courtroom"

5. a yard wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings;: "the house was built around an inner court"

6. the residence of a sovereign or nobleman;: "the king will visit the duke's court"

7. the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince

8. a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area

9. respectful deference;: "pay court to the emperor"

英文词源

court: court: [12] Latin cohors designated an ‘enclosed yard’ (it was formed from the prefix com- ‘with’ and an element hort- which also appears in English horticulture). By extension it came to stand for those assembled in such a yard – a crowd of attendants or company of soldiers; hence the meaning of cohort familiar today. But both in its original sense and as ‘retinue’ the word took another and rather more disguised path into English.

In late Latin the accusative form cohortem had already become cortem, and this passed into English via Old French cort and Anglo-Norman curt. It retains the underlying notion of ‘area enclosed by walls or buildings’ (now reinforced in the tautological compound courtyard [16]), but it seems that an early association of Old French cort with Latin curia ‘sovereign’s assembly’ and ‘legal tribunal’ has contributed two of the word’s commonest meanings in modern English.

The Italian version of the word is corte. From this was derived the verb corteggiare ‘attend court, pay honour’, which produced the noun corteggio, borrowed into English via French as cortège [17]. Other derivatives include courtesy [13], from Old French cortesie (of which curtsey [16] is a specialized use) and courtesan [16], via French courtisane from Italian cortigiana.
=> cohort, courtesy, curtsey, horticulture
court (n.): late 12c., from Old French cort (11c., Modern French cour) "king's court, princely residence," from Latin cortem, accusative of cors (earlier cohors) "enclosed yard," and by extension (and perhaps by association with curia "sovereign's assembly"), "those assembled in the yard; company, cohort," from com- "together" (see com-) + stem hort- related to hortus "garden, plot of ground" (see yard (n.1)). Sporting sense is from 1510s, originally of tennis. Legal meaning is from late 13c. (early assemblies for justice were overseen by the sovereign personally).
court (v.): "woo, offer homage," as one does at court, 1570s; see court (n.). Related: Courted; courting.

同义词辨析

playground, stadium, gymnasium, court

这些名词均可表示"运动场，操场"之意。

playground：一般指附属于学校或公园内的活动场地，也可指游乐场或儿童游戏场地。

stadium：指周围有看台的露天大型运动场。

gymnasium：可简写为gym，指不受天气影响的室内体育馆、健身房或运动场馆。

court：通常指周围有围墙的专用球场。

考试真题

While the city council vote was met with applause inside the council room, opponents to the measure, including soda lobbyists made sharp criticisms and a promise to challenge the tax in court.

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

This case gives the court an opportunity to rein in the growing use of patents to protect genetically engineered crops and other life forms―but the court may well use it to give this trend a powerful new endorsement.

Have we really gotten to the point that planting a seed can lead to a high-stakes Supreme Court patent lawsuit?

Rather than pay up or work out a settlement, Bowman decided to appeal—all the way to the Supreme Court

But this is a real-life argument before a Supreme Court that has a well-earned reputation for looking out for the interests of large corporations.

What are Monsanto's critics hoping the Supreme Court will do

The Supreme Court will try to change its reputation for supporting large corporations.

The Supreme Court is likely to persuade the parties concerned to work out a settlement

It is by no means certain that the settlement will be enacted (执行) – it is the subject of afairness hearing in the US courts.

Many people are seriously concerned by this - and the company is likely to face challenges in other courts around the world

The fine points of the law are decided by the courts and by acceptable common practice overtime.

On the occasions when hunting has been tried, local animal rights people have worked to secure court orders against the hunts.

Legislation and court decisions have made it legally possible in most states for parents to educate their children at home and each year more people take advantage of that opportunity

The court eventually freed Jackson after the police found the man who had really committed the crimes.

This responsibility takes her to many different places every week——the police station, the court and the hospital.

All of the incentive is really on winning and not losing on the field or on the court.

And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple's help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on 热衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl

So, while there may be insights to be gained from matching behavior to brain activity, those insights will I not necessarily lead to justice in a court of law.

The action stems from a federal court order issued on Tuesday requiring Apple to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation to unlock an iPhone used by one of the two attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December.

There will probably be months of legal confrontation, and it is not at all clear which side will prevail in court, nor in the battle for public opinion and legislative favor.

To her, it meant moving confidently around the court room, using convincing body language, and projecting her voice so it could be heard from the judge's bench to the back door.

Connor gave the deciding vote in many important cases during her 24 years on the top court.

Her little work experience in court.

If a student has kept a cat in his room for a week since the warning, he will face the student court.

If, one week from the date of written notice, the pet is not removed, the student is referred to the student court.

She is a famous judge in court.

With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was once the home of four kings and one queen.

The judges on the Federal circuit are “reacting to the anti-patient trend at the supreme court” ,says Harole C.

The Federal circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court’s judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is weather it should” reconsider” its state street Bank ruling.

Similarly, some Wall Street investment films armed themselves with patents for financial products, even as they took positions in court cases opposing the practice.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said it would use a particular case to conduct a broad review of business-method patents.

The legal issues in the case are obscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have some regulatory authority over nuclear power, legal scholars say that Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting test of how far those powers extend.

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

On a five to three vote,the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona's immigration law Monday-a modest policy victory for the Obama Aministration.

Justice Anthony Kennedy,joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the Court's liberals,ruled that the state flew too close to the federal sun.

The court, though, may want to allow room for police to cite situations where they are entitled to more freedom.

The court would be recklessly modest if it followed California’s advice.

The court has ruled that police don’t violate the Fourth Amendment when they sift through the wallet or pocketbook of an arrestee without a warrant.

Just how much does the Constitution protect your digital data? The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.

The high court’s decision said the judge in Mr.McDonnell’s trial failed to tell a jury that it must look only at his “official acts,” or the former governor’s decisions on “specific” and “unsettled” issues related to his duties.

The court’s ruling is legally sound in defining a kind of favoritism that is not criminal.

The court’s ruling is a step forward in the struggle against both corruption and official favoritism.

The court did suggest that accepting favors in return for opening doors is “distasteful” and “nasty.

The basic compact underlying representative government, wrote Chief Justice John Roberts for the court,” assumes that public officials will hear from their constituents and act on their concerns.

In a rare unanimous ruling, the US Supreme Court has overturned the corruption conviction of a former Virginia governor, Robert McDonnell.

He taught himself shorthand to get an even better job later as a court stenographer and as a reporter in Parliament.

But the ruling reinforces the need for citizens and their elected representatives, not the courts, to ensure equality of access to government.

Plays aiming at literary distinction were written for school or court, or for the choir boys of St.

Paul’s and the royal chapel, who, however, gave plays in public as well as at court.

Court, school organizations of amateurs, and the traveling actors were all rivals in supplying a widespread desire for dramatic entertainment; and no boy who went a grammar school could be ignorant that the drama was a form of literature which gave glory to Greece and Rome and might yet bring honor to England.

A federal appeals court overturned the prior decision, ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed hold patents to two genes that help forecast a woman's risk of breast cancer.

At the very least, the court should make itself subject to the code of conduct that applies to the rest of the federal judiciary.

In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents, despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized I0 years ago.

On a five to three vote, the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona's immigration law Monday-a modest policy victory for the Obama Administration.

similarly, some Wall Street investment firms armed themselves with patents for financial products, even as they took positions in court cases opposing the practice.

Some Congress members are trying to block the plan, and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court.

States will be able to force more people to pay sales tax when they make online purchases under a Supreme Court decision Thursday that will leave shoppers with lighter wallets but is a big financial win for states.

The case may yet reach the Supreme Court.

The cases the court overturned said that if a business was shipping a customer's purchase to a state where the business didn't have a physical presence such as a warehouse or office, the business didn't have to collect sales tax for the state.

The court cannot maintain its legitimacy as guardian of the rule of law when justices behave like politicians.

The court did suggest that accepting favors in return for opening doors is "distasteful" and "nasty".

The court has ruled that police don't violate the Fourth Amendment when they go through the wallet or pocketbook of an arrestee without a warrant.

The court would be recklessly modest if it followed California's advice.

The ethical judgments of the Supreme Court justices have become an important issue recently.

The Federal circuit's action comes in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the Supreme Court that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders.

The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.

The US Supreme Court frowns on sex-based classifications unless they are designed to address an "important" policy interest, Because the California law applies to all boards, even where there is no history of prior discrimination, courts are likely to rul

Their success may be determined by a suit related to this issue, brought by the Mayo Clinic, which the Supreme Court will hear in its next term.

This and other similar cases raise the question of whether there is still a line between the court and politics.

When the court deals with social policy decisions, the law it shapes is inescapably political-which is why decisions split along ideological lines are so easily dismissed as unjust.

词组搭配

go to court

take legal action

上法院；打官司

in court

appearing as a party or an advocate in a court of law

出庭；在法庭上

out of court

before a legal hearing can take place

不经法庭听审；私下

they are trying to settle the squabble out of court.
他们正试图私下解决争端。
[as modifier]an out-of-court settlement.
私下了结。

treated as impossible or not worthy of consideration

不屑一顾；不值得考虑

the price would put it out of court for most private buyers.
这个价格会使大部分私人买主望而却步。

pay court to

To flatter with solicitous overtures in an attempt to obtain something or clear away antagonism.

讨好，求爱：试图获得某物或消除敌对而用热心的表示来奉承

To seek someone's love; woo.

向…求爱；追求

实用场景例句

the civil/criminal courts: 民事 / 刑事法庭

Her lawyer made a statement outside the court.: 她的律师在法庭外面发表了一份声明。

She will appear in court tomorrow.: 她明天出庭。

They took their landlord to court for breaking the contract.: 因为房东毁约，他们把他告上了法庭。

The case took five years to come to court (= to be heard by the court) .: 那案件历时五年才被法庭受理。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

...a payment of two million pounds in an out of court settlement.: 经庭外和解支付200万英镑

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。

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。

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。

...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

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。

...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

...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

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。

...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

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。

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。

Their family was certainly well regarded at court.: 他们家族在宫廷中无疑颇受敬重。

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。

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。

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！

...a county court judge...: 县法院的法官

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。

The hotel has several tennis and squash courts...: 该酒店有几个网球场和壁球场。