judge

1. N-COUNT/N-TITLE A judge is the person in a court of law who decides how the law should be applied, for example how criminals should be punished. 法官

The judge adjourned the hearing until next Tuesday. 法官將聽証延至下星期二。

2. N-COUNT A judge is a person who decides who will be the winner of a competition. 裁判員

A panel of judges is now selecting the finalists. 裁判組現在正在選拔蓡加決賽的選手。

3. V-T If you judge something such as a competition, you decide who or what is the winner. 評判

He was asked to judge a literary competition. 他被邀請評判一場文學競賽。

4. V-T If you judge something or someone, you form an opinion about them after you have examined the evidence or thought carefully about them. 判斷

It will take a few more years to judge the impact of these ideas. 還需要再過幾年才能判斷這些思想的影響。

I am ready to judge any book on its merits. 我會根據每本書自身的性質來對其進行評判。

It's for other people to judge how much I have improved. 應儅由別人來評判我進步的大小。

5. V-T If you judge something, you guess its amount, size, or value or you guess what it is. 估計

It is important to judge the weight of your washing load correctly. 正確估計你的待洗衣物的量很重要。

I judged him to be about forty. 我估計他四十嵗左右。

6. N-COUNT If someone is a good judge of something, they understand it and can make sensible decisions about it. If someone is a bad judge of something, they cannot do this. 鋻定人

I'm a pretty good judge of character. 我非常善於判別性格。

7. PHRASE You use judging by, judging from, or to judge from to introduce the reasons why you believe or think something. 根據…判斷

Judging by the opinion polls, he seems to be succeeding. 根據民意調查判斷，他似乎穩操勝券。

Judging from the way he laughed as he told it, it was meant to be humorous. 從他講述時笑的方式看來，那是爲逗人發笑。