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court1 /kɔːt $ kɔːrt/ ●●● S1 W1 noun   → caught
1  for deciding about a legal case 判案 [countableC, uncountableU] the place where a trial is held, or the people there, especially the judge and the jury who examine the evidence and decide whether someone is guilty or not guilty 法院，法庭；全体审判人员
 It could not be proved in a court of law.
这无法在法庭上证实。
 The court case lasted six weeks.
这场诉讼持续了六个星期。
 Four people will appear in court today, charged with fraud.
今天将有四个人因被指控犯有欺诈罪出庭受审。
 The court ruled that no compensation was due.
法庭判决不予赔偿。
 She threatened to take the magazine to court (=take legal action against them) if they didn’t publish an immediate apology.
她威胁说如果这家杂志不立刻刊登道歉声明，她就要把他们告上法庭。
2  for playing a sport 进行体育活动 [countableC]DS an area made for playing games such as tennis 〔网球等的〕球场 → field, pitch
squash/tennis/basketball etc court
 Can you book a squash court for tomorrow?
你能不能预订一个壁球场明天打球？
on court
 The players are due on court in an hour.
选手们一小时后上场。
→4  See picture on 见图 Page A10 Sports centre 体育运动中心 →5 see picture at 见图 tennis
3  king/queen 国王/王后
a) PGOTBB[countableC] the place where a king or queen lives and works 宫廷
 the royal courts of Europe
欧洲皇家宫廷
b) PGO the court the king, queen, their family, and their friends, advisers etc 王室人员；王宫人员
 Several members of the court were under suspicion.
几名王室成员有嫌疑。
 There was a taste in court circles for romantic verse.
宫廷里爱好情诗。
 Court officials denied the rumours.
宫廷官员否认了这些传言。
4  hold court formalTALK/MAKE A SPEECH to speak in an interesting, amusing, or forceful way so that people gather to listen 吸引人群
hold court to
 Dylan was holding court upstairs to a group of fans.
迪伦在楼上吸引了一群歌迷。
Examples from the Corpus
hold court• I am holding court, lady of the mansion.• Artists who have arrived at that position are expected to sit still and hold court.• Instead, he could hold court for his many buyers in his studio garage.• The days when he held court at the hotel's supper club seem far away now.• Baseball raconteur Bill Rigney is holding court at a window table.• For hour after hour, without a break, clearly relishing the attention, Kevorkian holds court.• Ken Bradshaw was holding court among a handful of Waimea veterans.• Somewhere in the smoky crowd the authoress and photographer, Jill Freedman from New York, was holding court.
5. pay court to somebody ATTENTION old-fashioned to give someone a lot of attention to try and make them like you 向某人献殷勤，讨好某人
Examples from the Corpus
pay court to somebody• Elton had paid court to Miss Smith for a month, but had made no progress.
6. area next to a building 建筑物附近的区域 [countableC] a courtyard 庭院，院子
→ the ball is in somebody’s court at ball1(7), → be laughed out of court at laugh1(6), → food court
 COLLOCATIONS
phrases
a court of law 法庭
You may be asked to give evidence before a court of law.
可能会要求你在法庭上出示证据。
court + NOUN
a court case (=a problem or crime that is dealt with in a court of law) 诉讼案件
a recent court case involving the death of a baby
最近涉及一名婴儿死亡的诉讼案件
a court order (=an instruction that someone must do something) 法庭指令
A court order specified that the money must be paid back over six months.
法庭指令明确说明这笔钱六个月内必须偿还。
a court ruling (=an official decision) 法庭判决
The company appealed against the court ruling.
公司对法庭判决提起上诉。
court action (=a court case) 诉讼案件
He was threatened with court action.
他受到威胁说要把他告上法庭。
court proceedings (=the processes that are part of a court case) 审判程序
The court proceedings were over in a day.
法庭审判一天结束。
verbs
go to court (=take legal action) 上法院,打官司
The costs of going to court are very high.
打官司的费用非常高。
take somebody to court (=take legal action against someone) 把某人告上法庭
She took the company to court for sex discrimination.
她以性别歧视为由把公司告上法庭。
bring somebody/something to court (also bring somebody/something before a court) 把某人/某物提交法庭审理
Three teenage girls were brought before the court for robbing an elderly woman.
三名少女因抢劫一名老妪被带上法庭受审。
appear in court 出庭
A man has appeared in court charged with cruelty to animals.
一名男子因被起诉虐待动物而出庭受审。
a case comes to court/comes before the court 案件被送到法庭审理
The case came to court 21 months later.
21个月以后这起案件被送到法庭审理。
a court hears a case 法院审理[聆讯]案件
The county court will hear the case next month.
郡法院将于下月审理此案。
settle something out of court (=reach an agreement without using a court) 庭外解决某事,对某事达成庭外和解
nThe matter was finally settled out of court.
a court rules/orders/holds something 法院判决某事
The court ruled that the penalty was not excessive.
法院判决量刑没有过重。
a court clears/acquits somebody (=says that they are not guilty) 法庭宣判某人无罪
nA US court cleared him of bribery allegations.
a court convicts somebody (=says that they are guilty) 法庭宣判某人有罪
nA New York court convicted her as a tax cheat.
a court upholds something (=says that an earlier decision was right) 法庭维持某案件的原判
nIt seems likely that the court will uphold his conviction.
a court quashes/overturns something (=says that an earlier decision was wrong) 法庭推翻某案件的原判
nA Brazilian court has quashed a 19-year jail sentence.
a court adjourns a case/trial etc (=stops dealing with it for a period of time) 法庭延期审理案件
nThe court adjourned the trial until June 21st.
a court dismisses/throws out something (=refuses to allow or consider something) 法庭驳回某案件
nThe court dismissed his appeal against conviction.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + court
a criminal court (=for cases about crime) 刑事法庭
Two French magistrates ruled that he should stand trial in a criminal court.
两名法国治安法官判他应该接受刑事法庭的审判。
a civil court (=for cases about disagreements) 民事法庭
nEviction proceedings take place in a civil court.
a Crown Court (=a British court for cases about serious crimes) 〔英国的〕刑事法庭
nThe defendant went to the Crown Court for sentencing.
a High Court (=an important court, with more power than an ordinary court) 高等法院
nTheir convictions were upheld in the High Court.
an appeals court/court of appeal (=dealing with cases in which people are not satisfied with a decision) 上诉法庭
nThe appeals court rejected the defence’s argument.
the Supreme Court (=the most important court in some countries or US states) 最高法院
nThomas was the only African-American justice on the Supreme Court.
a federal court (=a national court rather than a state court) 联邦法院
a county court (=a local court) 郡法院；县法院
a magistrates’ court (=a court in each area in England and Wales that deals with less serious crimes) 治安法庭
a kangaroo court (=an unofficial court that punishes people unfairly) “袋鼠法庭”，私设的法庭
The army reportedly held kangaroo courts and executed alleged rebels.
据报道，军队私设法庭，处决被指控的叛乱者。
n THESAURUS
In a court
defendant the person who is on trial for a crime
the defence British EnglishBrE, the defense American EnglishAmE the lawyers who are working for the defendant
the prosecution the lawyers who are trying to prove that the defendant is guilty
judge the official in charge of a court who decides how criminals should be punished
jury a group of people, usually 12 people, who listen to the facts and decide whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty
witness someone who describes in a court of law what he or she knows about a crime
testimony a formal statement made in a court of law about a particular situation or action
verdict the decision of the jury as to whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty
Examples from the Corpus
court• The next step is for the lessor to make a court application to obtain an order for possession.• Even physical access to a court hearing was not guaranteed.• Now the company was in the soup, and its attorneys promptly removed the case to the federal court.• And yet another plot twist was aired in court Wednesday.• Benton appeared in court yesterday on three charges of assault.• He had been present in court when sentence was passed and the fact of his contempt was never in issue.• the United States Supreme Court• The new leisure complex has a sauna, jacuzzi, swimming pool and tennis courts.• After the hearing, as the vans taking the boys from the court emerged the crowd exploded with anger.• A group of photographers and reporters gathered outside the court.• There was a large crowd of reporters gathered outside the court.• The court heard Edmunds initially took 10 percent of the earnings but with nothing for the Sunsets.• The courts ought, therefore, simply to decline jurisdiction in such matters.• The courts are floodlit at night so that you can play all the year round.• She says she will go to court to try to prove that she was unfairly dismissed from her job.• a volleyball court
take ... to court• As a result of this incident, Mailloux was dismissed and took his case to court.• I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day.• Corrupt insiders should be taken to court, not thrown aside by presidents as electoral bargaining chips.• Taylor received their unexpected visits, notices arrived in the mail informing them that they were being taken to court.• Groups with a grievance could take their cases to court.• Any man who has taken his brothers to court three times since 1980 must have a cutting edge to his personality.• As a result, the school penalized the student publishers, and they took their case to court.• He was going to take them to court, declare them perverts, unfit to raise a child.
squash/tennis/basketball etc court• Sports facilities include a swimming pool and 4 tennis courts.• There is also a children's pool, shops and a tennis court.• There would be room for a tennis court, too.• There's a delightful promenade beside the river, a network of walks and rambles plus tennis courts and a mini-golf course.• Joseph's father was reinforcing the posts that held up the wire netting around the tennis court.• A large, blue divider splits the gym at the Higgins Middle School into two basketball courts.
court2 verb [transitiveT]  
1  TRY TO DO OR GET somethingto try hard to please someone, especially because you want something from them 奉承，讨好
 His campaign team have assiduously courted the media.
他的竞选班子竭力讨好媒体。
2  court danger/death etc formalRISK to behave in a way that makes danger etc more likely 招致危险/死亡等
 To have admitted this would have courted political disaster.
承认了这件事就等于招致政治灾难。
Examples from the Corpus
courted ... disaster• She knew that the longer the relationship lasted, the more she courted disaster.• Miletos, on the other hand, had courted disaster, and Branchidai had suffered.
3  be courting old-fashioned if a man and a woman are courting, they are having a romantic relationship and may get married 〔男女〕恋爱
 That was back in the 1960s when we were courting.
那还是20世纪60年代我们在谈恋爱的时候。
Examples from the Corpus
be courting• All the while she and Edwin were courting.• Attempting to take up a post abroad without any preparatory updating could be courting disaster.• In some ways, even long after we married, I would always be courting her.• Within a year, universities from around the country were courting him.• I know Marie Thwaites was in service at the time she was courting John.• I have no idea, either, whether Thomas was courting Susan, or Augusta, or both, or neither.• The Girls were so attractive that his relations were courting them and marrying the most beautiful ones behind his back.• I seem to be courting you!
4. RELATIONSHIP old-fashioned if a man courts a woman, he spends time being nice to her because he hopes to marry her 〔男子〕向…求爱，追求
Examples from the Corpus
court• She finally married a gentleman who had been courting her for years.• He is accompanied by Nicholas Frere, who has been courting his sister and whose intrepid, free-spirited demeanour he envies.• But ingratiation is not just about courting popularity.• The whole trade courts psychological flaws.• In the latter, parishioners staked out positions and courted support as though an election loomed.• Politicians are courting voters before the elections.• Of how he had met, courted, wed Constance.
From Longman Business Dictionary
courtcourt1 /kɔːtkɔːrt/ noun
1the court the people in a court, especially the judge, other officials, and the JURY (=ordinary people who decide certain cases). The phrase is often used when talking about what a judge or jury think or decide about a case
The court said the defendants had been denied a fair trial.
2[countableC]LAW a place where all the information concerning a crime or disagreement is given so that it can be judged
The new laws haven’t yet been tested in court.
Sexual harassment is a criminal offense in Germany, but few women complain or go to court (=start the legal process to have a case dealt with in court).
Federal authorities are free to take taxpayers to court to collect unpaid taxes.
The two sides agreed to settle the case out of court (=without asking the court to make a decision).
→ Admiralty court → appeal court → bankruptcy court → civil court → commercial court → county court → criminal court → Crown Court → district court → family court → Federal Court → High Court → labour court → mercantile court → small claims court → state court → Supreme Court
courtcourt2 verb [transitiveT]
1to behave nicely towards someone because you want them to do something for you or you want to get something from them
A distinguished chemist, Ed Alexander has been courted by large corporations, but he stays in the classroom doing what he loves - teaching.
The EU is being courted by a number of countries putting themselves forward as the best suppliers of energy.
2FINANCE if one company courts another, it has discussions with the other company about the possibility of a friendly takeover or MERGER (=combining the companies)
While only Daimler-Benz has courted the luxury car company in public, Volkswagen is also said to be interested in buying it.
Origin court1
(1200-1300) Old French Latin cohors; → COHORT
court1 noun →COLLOCATIONS1 →n THESAURUS1court2 verb
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