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单词 judgment
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judgment
(ʌdʒmənt )
Word forms: judgments regional note:   in BRIT, also use judgement
1. variable noun B2
A judgment is an opinion that you have or express after thinking carefully about something.
In your judgment, what has changed over the past few years?
How can he form any judgement of the matter without the figures?
I don't really want to make any judgments on the decisions they made. [+ on]
Synonyms: opinion, view, estimate, belief  
2. uncountable noun [oft with poss]
Judgment is the ability to make sensible guesses about a situation or sensible decisions about what to do.
I respect his judgement and I'll follow any advice he gives me.
He said that publication of the information was a serious error in judgment.
Synonyms: sense, common sense, good sense, judiciousness  
3. variable noun
A judgment is a decision made by a judge or by a court of law.
The industry was awaiting a judgment from the European Court.
The Court is expected to give its judgement within the next ten days.
Synonyms: verdict, finding, result, ruling  
4. against your better judgment phrase
If something is against your better judgment, you believe that it would be more sensible or better not to do it.
Against my better judgement I agreed.
She had become so fond of him, almost against her better judgement.
Synonyms: reluctantly, grudgingly, unwillingly, with reservation  
5. to pass judgment phrase
If you pass judgment on someone or something, you give your opinion about it, especially if you are making a criticism.
It's not for me to pass judgement, it's a personal matter between the two of you.
It's very hard to pass judgement on yourself.
6. to reserve judgment phrase
If you reserve judgment on something, you refuse to give an opinion about it until you know more about it.
Doctors are reserving judgement on his ability to travel until later in the week. [+ on]
7. sit in judgment phrase
To sit in judgment means to decide whether or not someone is guilty of doing something wrong.
He argues very strongly that none of us has the right to sit in judgement.
Quotations:
' Tis with our judgments as our watches: none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own
Alexander PopeEssay on Criticism
Idioms:
sit in judgment
to criticize other people
I think people should work hard to keep a marriage alive. I don't want to sit in judgment on other people, but if there's anything that's good, try to hold on to it.
Collocations:
clinical judgment
Clinical judgments are notoriously difficult to make.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Its diagnosis is difficult and depends on clinical judgment and timely use of the right test.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Patients in the at-risk groups should be referred to their GP, who will use their clinical judgment.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
cloud the judgment
It is not unusual for personal relationships to be formed at work that can cloud the judgment of the referee.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They are sentimental about the future and that has clouded the judgment not just of town planners but of the entire human race.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
I was in a bad place mentally and my judgment was clouded .
The Sun (2012)
court judgment
Commenting or criticising any court judgment carries a one-year prison sentence in my country, he explains.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The UK is normally regarded as having a good record in complying with European court judgments.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
We have been to a small claims court and have a court judgment against him but still do not have the money.
The Sun (2015)
critical judgment
They make and accept critical judgments regarding others' behavior; but they do not seek to understand it.
Christianity Today (2000)
Not only must she restore her own sense of worth but she must also be prepared to sustain it in the face of the critical judgments of others.
Trauma and Recovery (1992)
By refusing to make critical value judgments about other civilisations one was, he thought, diminishing the value of one's own culture.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
editorial judgment
We applied normal editorial judgments and are satisfied with our coverage.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The BBC Trust said the ' wrong editorial judgment' had been made and the episode was not suitable for its time slot.
The Sun (2013)
The courts should not be left to decide on matters of editorial judgment.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
enforce a judgment
English courts can recognise and enforce judgments by foreign courts.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Efforts have been made to enforce the judgment across the world.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Sometimes we won our case in court, but the judgments were not enforced.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
exercise judgment
Under any system political parties need to exercise judgment and discretion on whom they accept money from.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They thought that the referee had exercised terrific judgment.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The point isn't to judge others but to exercise good judgment.
Christianity Today (2000)
form a judgment
It was easy to form a judgment that this was not a serious business.
Times, Sunday Times
Are you dealing with a personality who makes decisions easily or someone who needs more time to form a judgment?
Times, Sunday Times
It also seems to be saying that one should understand the real person without simply forming a judgment about someone based on our own expectations of attractiveness.
Times, Sunday Times
The qualities of the candidates are also to be weighed in forming a judgment.
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harsh judgment
It may sound a harsh judgment.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Who has made this somewhat harsh judgment?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Yet the man who became an American sporting icon is being subjected to harsh judgments in the court of public opinion.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
judgment is based on
Like it or not, employers make an instant judgment based on appearance.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They make judgments based on available evidence, but that does not mean it is always right.
The Sun (2016)
Make sure your judgments are based on something substantial and not simply differences of approach.
Christianity Today (2000)
legal judgment
Consumers who buy faulty goods or services abroad will be entitled to a refund from their credit card company, after a landmark legal judgment yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
Despite that legal judgment, his own political view was that he could live with voting for the treaty.
Times, Sunday Times
His name was all over the written legal judgment of the salary-cap breach, which made his position untenable.
Times,Sunday Times
A landmark legal judgment has opened the floodgates to potentially hundreds of millions of pounds in extra compensation claims against banks over missold hedging products.
Times, Sunday Times
Although gifted with first-class legal judgment, he never rested on the obvious or intuitive answer or solution but subjected every element of his draft advice to the most rigorous scrutiny.
Times, Sunday Times
make a judgment
I don't make value judgments on characters.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
We can all make snap judgments in front of the TV.
The Sun (2007)
Based on the clinical and research information, the panel is clear it has made the correct clinical judgment.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
matter of judgment
The decision to prosecute was not a mechanical procedure but a matter of judgment and experience.
Times, Sunday Times
A careless driving fixed penalty will be a matter of judgment by the officer and drivers may feel they are being picked on.
Times, Sunday Times
This, though, remains a matter of judgment.
Times, Sunday Times
Is that not a matter of judgment rather than luck?
Times, Sunday Times
That was a matter of judgment for the local housing authority in each individual case.
Times, Sunday Times
moral judgment
It is not the role of politicians to cast moral judgments on that.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Researchers have found that people are less harsh in their moral judgments when they are presented with the facts in a foreign language.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He doesn't see it as a moral judgment against white people.
Christianity Today (2000)
negative judgment
This leads to dissonance and usually to a negative judgment.
Christianity Today
He did not record though whether his negative judgment was on aesthetic or moral grounds.
Times, Sunday Times
And which of you doesn't, on seeing a house without any books or even bookshelves in it, make a negative judgment about the inhabitants?
Times, Sunday Times
To allow a subsequent plaintiff to use the tenth, negative judgment as collateral estoppel against the defendant may seem unjust.
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The grounds for an affirmative or negative judgment seem equally balanced.
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poor judgment
For such an intelligent man, he has shown incredibly poor judgment.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It showed poor judgment to send the pictures from an office account and poor taste to think that they were funny.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Right now he is paying a personal price for poor judgment and not knowing when to let go.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
professional judgment
Only later would a more measured professional judgment tailor it to the practical requirements of journalism.
Times,Sunday Times
There were no doubt areas that were left to the clinical and professional judgment of those involved.
Times, Sunday Times
I accept that some chief officers have been exposed in recent years as lacking in integrity and in professional judgment.
Times, Sunday Times
The inquiry team found that her work was conducted to a 'high standard of professional judgment and accuracy'.
Times, Sunday Times
She said that it fully supported its pharmacists' professional judgment when assessing the appropriateness of a clinical service.
Times, Sunday Times
qualitative judgment
In the wake of said performance, proffer no qualitative judgment that may be considered a hostage to fortune.
Times, Sunday Times
The word 'special' connoted not a quantitative test but a qualitative judgment as to the weight to be given to the particular factor for planning purposes.
Times, Sunday Times
Besides the quantitative assessment a qualitative judgment of participants can be shown which serves as a justification for their numerical assessment of the question.
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Such qualitative judgments may create 'soft' risk management boundaries, but nonetheless are important in detecting the irrational and subjective elements in market behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
But with a more comprehensive understanding of risk, involving both advanced quantitative models and 'soft' qualitative judgments, the chances of avoiding future financial catastrophes could be much improved.
Times, Sunday Times
question the judgment of
I responded that, whatever the merits of the case, it wasn't for politicians to question the judgment of courts.
Times, Sunday Times
Both can look like worldbeaters and then do something that makes you question your judgment.
The Sun
Does that call into question her judgment?
Times, Sunday Times
Those who question the judgment in such intemperate terms might calm down and read it.
Times, Sunday Times
He reacts furiously to anyone who questions his judgment: mostly from the old world and old money.
Times, Sunday Times
questionable judgment
Investors are not sure whether to be appalled by the questionable judgment or to admire his chutzpah in shrugging this off.
Times, Sunday Times
Such episodes will rightly soon be seen as badges of honour, demonstrating entrepreneurial guts and providing unrepeatable experiences, rather than suggesting questionable judgment.
Times, Sunday Times
It means that questionable judgments were more in the realm of possibility than we may have imagined.
Globe and Mail
rational judgment
Did some new evidence, historical research, or textual interpretation tip the scales of rational judgment?
Christianity Today
A player's desperation to represent his country can and will override rational judgment.
Times, Sunday Times
We know only too well that all rational judgment there has been abandoned.
The Sun
Yup, that's a sane th that judgment and rational judgment, you bearded loon.
The Sun
Other sections of the examination, to be drawn up by doctors, will test the driver's capacity for rational judgment.
Times, Sunday Times
reasonable judgment
Even taking the reasonable judgment of the journalist concerned into account, there was no public interest in the publication of the information and images.
Times, Sunday Times
But how much information do you need on someone to make a reasonable judgment?
Times, Sunday Times
But, there simply are not enough transactions to form a reasonable judgment.
Times, Sunday Times
One of the suggested changes said that a player's 'reasonable judgment will be accepted even if it was later shown to be wrong by other information such as video'.
Times, Sunday Times
Only when the judge has authority to dismiss an unreasonable claim will people in society feel free in daily interaction to act on their reasonable judgment.
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reasoned judgment
Five-day jury trials would become three-day judge-alone trials with a reasoned judgment as a bonus.
Times,Sunday Times
It should also give a reasoned judgment for the outcome.
The Sun
Along with disclosure, the courts provide a reasoned judgment and appeals.
Times, Sunday Times
render a judgment
He personally signed a rare parliamentary order to render the judgment irrelevant and 'protect the freedom to pray'.
The Sun
That suit was dismissed by the court for failing to state a claim that the court could render a judgment under.
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An administrative law judge or hearing officer may oversee the proceedings and render a judgment.
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The statistics also do not take into account the decisions for which the courts rendered a judgment but no written opinion.
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Courts may also have the discretion to decide a case without presentation of oral argument, rendering their judgment entirely based on the arguments set forth in the parties' briefs.
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respect a judgment
In this respect the judgment followed much of what had been ruled elsewhere.
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He was essentially a regimental officer and his soldiers respected his judgment and personal example on operations.
Times, Sunday Times
The most experienced sages of the church respected his judgment in questions of ecclesiastical policy.
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sensible judgment
It is about making sensible judgments based on all the evidence.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
You're grown up enough to be able to make a sensible judgment about whether your boyfriend is the right guy for you.
The Sun (2012)
I think it is possible for lay inspectors to come to sensible judgments about the quality of teaching.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
snap judgment
He makes powerful snap judgments about people and is then reluctant to see them differently.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Sometimes we want to make snap judgments on big issues.
Christianity Today (2000)
They have to try and keep up with players half their age and make a snap judgment.
The Sun (2008)
sound judgment
These include recommendations that non-executives should advise on strategy, help achieve financial success, challenge accepted thinking, and exercise sound judgment.
Times, Sunday Times
Economic management needs good luck as well as sound judgment.
Times, Sunday Times
He has handled his role as potential power broker with sound judgment.
Times, Sunday Times
Volcanic eruptions might be forgivable if coupled with sound judgment and strong leadership.
The Sun
In the cabinet there are many other politicians who clearly possess the sound judgment and vision that our country needs.
Times, Sunday Times
subjective judgment
Whether a cigarette tastes good or bad is a subjective judgment because what tastes good to one person may well taste horrible to another.
Exploring language (6th edn) (1995)
A great deal of this area turns on opinion, rather than fact, and usually entails some degree of subjective judgment.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It's a subjective judgment, but that's art for you.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
suspend judgment
I suspended judgment until she was finished.
Christianity Today (2000)
He said that we should suspend judgments until then.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
An essential part of good judgment is a respect for facts and, in the absence of many facts, a willingness to suspend judgment.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
trust the judgment of
Employees are also happy with their more immediate managers, feeling that they talk openly and honestly with them (79%) and trust their judgment (81%).
Times, Sunday Times
Employees say their managers speak openly and honestly with them (71%) and trust their judgment (74%).
Times, Sunday Times
People say their managers are open (77%), trust their judgment (78%) and that people don't need to use intimidation to get things done (70%).
Times, Sunday Times
You are in charge of your heart and how far you give it, so trust your judgment to see the right paths open up.
The Sun
Trust your judgment and stick to the plan.
The Sun
wise judgment
It was a shocking omission and a wise judgment to bring jazz back.
Times, Sunday Times
Older people can bring wise judgment and social competence.
Times, Sunday Times
All heads make their own wise judgment about closure based on their school's circumstances - regardless of what the weathermen or politicians tell us.
Times, Sunday Times
Good medical practice demands wise judgment in settings of considerable uncertainty, and this will result in variable outcomes.
Times, Sunday Times
It was a wise judgment.
Times, Sunday Times
withhold judgment
Withhold judgment and instead ask follow-up questions for clarification.
Christianity Today
These strategies will communicate your deep concern and love for your group members, and they can move your relationships deeper as you withhold judgment and seek first to understand.
Christianity Today
Withhold judgment and extend grace.
Christianity Today
Also, ought we not to withhold judgment until someone in the gallery complains that the actors are too loud?
Times, Sunday Times
Stating that he'd tried to withhold judgment before hearing the album, he eventually did and said...
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