trial

• n. 试验；审讯；努力；磨炼
• adj. 试验的；审讯的
• n. (Trial)人名；(法)特里亚尔

来自 try,甄选，选出，尝试，审理，-al,名词后缀。引申诸相关词义。

1. (law) legal proceedings consisting of the judicial examination of issues by a competent tribunal;

"most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial"

2. the act of testing something;

"in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"

"he called each flip of the coin a new trial"

3. (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications;

"the trials for the semifinals began yesterday"

4. (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law;

"he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty"

5. trying something to find out about it;

"a sample for ten days free trial"

"a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain"

6. an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event;

"his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"

"life is full of tribulations"

"a visitation of the plague"

7. the act of undergoing testing;

"he survived the great test of battle"

"candidates must compete in a trial of skill"

trial (n.)

mid-15c., "act or process of testing, a putting to proof by examination, experiment, etc.," from Anglo-French trial, noun formed from triet "to try" (see try (v.)). Sense of "examining and deciding of the issues between parties in a court of law" is first recorded 1570s; extended to any ordeal by 1590s. As an adjectival phrase, trial-and-error is recorded from 1806. Trial balloon (1826) translates French ballon d'essai, a small balloon sent up immediately before a manned ascent to determine the direction and tendency of winds in the upper air, though the earliest use in English is figurative.

trial, experiment, test, try

这些名词均有"试验"之意。

trial： 指为观察、研究某事物以区别其真伪、优劣或效果等而进行较长时间的试验或试用过程。

experiment： 多指用科学方法在实验室内进行较系统的操作实验以验证、解释或说明某一理论、定理或某一观点等。

test： 普通用词，含义广，指用科学方法对某物质进行测试以估价其性质或效能等。

try： 普通用词，多用于口语或非正式场合，指试一试。

He faces trial on several charges.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

A team of researchers from the University of York conducted a randomized (随机的) control trial with 691 depressed patients from 83 physician practices across England.

2019年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

We learn, in a sense, by trial and error.

2019年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

I remember talking with a young lawyer who was about to begin her first jury trial.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

I don’t want them to suspect this is my first trial.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental ( ' , 渐进的) gains.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

I became aware of the trials of career-focused European woman a few years ago when I met a post-doctoral student from Germany who was then a visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Hire Barbara Jones on a trial basis.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

What did Juan ask his roommate to do when he was making his trial speech?

出自-2010年6月听力原文

During a month-long hospital trial,researchers asked 70 patients how they felt being around the robot and "only three or four said they didn't like having it around".

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

I asked the lawyer again how she wanted to appear at her first trial.

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

I don't want them to suspect this is my first trial.

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

Robots are currently under a two-year trial in Wales which will train "farmbots" to herd, monitor the health of livestock, and make sure there is enough pasture for them to graze on.

2018年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

She also imagined a skillful closing argument and a winning trial.

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

Start with a trial program, and expect to change the details as you go.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental gains.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

The study included 386 kindergarteners from schools in the Fast Track Project, a multi-site clinical trial in the U.S that in 1991 began tracking how children developed across their lives.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

A six-month trial will be introduced at Holborn station from mid-April, eliminating the rule of standing on the right and walking on the left.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

A three-week trial at Holborn last year found that the number of people using escalators at any time of could be raised by almost a third.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

In the new trial, which will be launched from April 18, one of three "up" escalators will be standing only, with a second banning walking at peak times.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The previous trial found that escalators at the station normally carried 2, 500 people between 8:30 am and 9:30 am on a typical day, rising to 3, 250 during the researching period.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Their cooperation quickly produced results, and a few years later at jamaica's olympic trials in early 2008, Shelly-Ann, who at that time only ranked number 70 in the world, beat jamaica's unchallenged queen of the sprint.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

This new six-month trial will help US find out if we can influence customers to stand on both sides in the long term.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

With her dad's permission, she spent the next two years researching online and conducting trials to get a recipe that was both tasty and tooth-friendly.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Others await trial.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

As the hacking trial concludes – finding guilty ones-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones ,and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge –the winder issue of dearth of integrity still standstill, Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

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.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

As the hacking trial concludes – finding guilty one ex-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones, and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge – the wider issue of dearth of integrity still st

2015年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

For one trial, each participant was shown a pile of pens that the researcher claimed were from a previous experiment.

2018年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place .

2015年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial democratic values, including the principles that all citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries; that jurors should be sel

2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Parkrun is not a race but a time trial: Your only competitor is the clock.

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

a murder trial

谋杀案的审理

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He's on trial for murder.

他因涉嫌谋杀罪而受审。

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She will stand trial/go on trial for fraud.

她因涉嫌诈骗将受到审判。

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The men were arrested but not brought to trial .

这些人已被逮捕但并未送交法院审判。

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The case never came to trial .

这个案件从未开庭审理。

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She is awaiting trial on corruption charges.

她因被控贪污正等候审判。

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He did not receive a fair trial.

他没有受到公正的审判。

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She was detained without trial.

她未经审讯便被羁押。

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The new drug is undergoing clinical trials.

这种新药正在进行临床试验。

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She agreed to employ me for a trial period .

她同意试用我一段时间。

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The system was introduced on a trial basis for one month.

这个制度已引进试行一个月。

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a trial separation (= of a couple whose marriage is in difficulties)

试验性分居

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We had the machine on trial for a week.

这台机器我们已经试用了一个星期。

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a trial of strength (= a contest to see who is stronger)

实力的较量

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New evidence showed the police lied at the trial...

新的证据表明警方在审讯时撒了谎。

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He's awaiting trial in a military court on charges of plotting against the state...

他因被控密谋颠覆国家正等待军事法庭的审判。

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They have been treated with this drug in clinical trials...

他们已在临床试验中接受过这种药物的治疗。

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I took the car out for a trial on the roads…

我开车上路试驾了一下。

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He had just given a trial to a young woman who said she had previous experience...

他刚给了一位声称自己有从业经验的年轻女子一次试用机会。

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The 26-year old fullback has been on trial at the club for ten days.

那位 26 岁的后卫已经在该俱乐部试用 10 天了。

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...the trials of adolescence.

青春期的苦恼

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He has been riding in horse trials for less than a year.

他参加赛马选拔赛还不到一年。

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...Dovedale Sheepdog Trials.

达夫谷牧羊犬测试赛

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Many drugs were found by trial and error...

很多药物都是通过反复试验才发现的。

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She feels that raising her children has been a matter of trial and error.

她感到抚养孩子就像是摸着石头过河。

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He is currently on trial accused of serious drugs charges...

他目前正因严重的毒品控罪而受审。

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He will go on trial later this month charged with murder…

他将因谋杀罪名在本月晚些时候出庭受审。

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The President will be drawn into a damaging battle in which his credentials will be on trial.

总统将被卷入一场造成负面影响的争斗中，他的资格会因此受到考验。

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He was found to be mentally unfit to stand trial…

他被判定精神状况不宜接受审判。

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Five people are to stand trial for murder.

将有 5 个人因涉嫌谋杀受到审判。

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