trial

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
    — all thy vexations / Were but my trials of thy love and thou / Hast strangely stood the test here
  2. The trial number.
  3. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.; The testing of a product or procedure.
    — They will perform the trials for the new equipment next week.
  4. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.; A research study to test the effectiveness and safety of a drug, medical procedure, etc.
    — A randomized, controlled trial (RCT).
  5. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.; An event in which athletes’ or animals’ abilities are tested as they compete for a place on a team, or to move on to the next level of a championship, for example.
    — soccer trials; sheepdog trials
  6. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.; A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
  7. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.; An internal examination set by Eton College. UK
  8. An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.; An occasion on which armies or individuals meet in combat. archaic
    — In both your armies there is many a soul / Shall pay full dearly for this encounter, / If once they join in trial.
  9. A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime).
    — If you are convicted at trial, you have the right to file an appeal.
  10. A difficult or annoying experience or person; (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety.
    — That boy was a trial to his parents.
  11. The action of trying (to do) something, especially more than once. (This sense is still current in the expression trial and error.) archaic
    — Finding my first Seed did not grow, which I easily imagin’d was by the Drought, I sought for a moister Piece of Ground to make another Trial in,
动词 v.
  1. To carry out a series of tests on (a new product, procedure etc.) before marketing or implementing it. transitive
    — The warning system was extensively trialed before being fitted to all our vehicles.
  2. To try out (a new player) in a sports team. transitive
    — The team trialled a new young goalkeeper in Saturday's match, with mixed results.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to a trial or test. not-comparable
  2. Characterized by having three (usually equivalent) components. not-comparable
  3. Attempted on a provisional or experimental basis. not-comparable
  4. Triple. not-comparable
  5. Pertaining to a language form referring to three of something, like people. (See Ambai language for an example.) not-comparable
    — No language has a trial number unless it has a dual.

词形变化

trials plural trials present,singular,third-person trialing US,participle,present trialling UK,participle,present trialed US,participle,past trialed US,past trialled UK,participle,past trialled UK,past trials plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bench trial civil trial clinical trial counter-trial fair trial field trial free trial jury trial kilotrial monkey trial on trial on trial for one's life pre-trial pseudotrial reverse trial sea trial show trial teletrial time trial trialability trial balance trial-balloon trial by jury trial by media trial by ordeal trial court trial de novo trial division trialism trial number trial of scar trial of void trial pit trial run trialwise under-trial intertrial intratrial make trial of megatrial midtrial minitrial mistrial nontrial posttrial pretrial put on trial retrial stand trial subtrial trialable trial and error trial balloon trial by combat trial by fire trial impression trialist trialler trialless trials and tribulations trial separation trialware undertrial untrialled triality

词源

词源 1
From Middle English trial, triall, from Anglo-Norman trial, triel, from trier (“to pick out, cull”) + -al. More at English try.
词源 2
From Latin tri- (stem of trēs (“three”)) + -al, on the pattern of dual.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary