| 单词 | judge |
| 释义 | noun | verb judgejudge1 /dʒʌdʒ/ ●●● S2 W1 noun [countable] 1law the official in control of a court who decides how criminals should be punished: Judge Pamela Gifford the judge’s controversial decisionfederal judge/high court judge etc. (=a judge in a particular court)appear/come/go etc. before a judge (=come to a court of law because you have been charged with committing a crime)2someone who decides on the result of a competition: the judges in the national essay competition The panel of judges (=group of judges) included several well-known writers.► see thesaurus at referee13a good/bad judge of something someone whose opinion on something is usually right or wrong: Sarah’s not a very good judge of character.4be the judge (of something) to be the person who decides what to do about something, or what action is correct: Which one is right for you? Only you can be the judge.let me be the judge of that!/I’ll be the judge of that! spoken (=used to tell someone angrily that you will decide about something and you do not need their advice) [Origin: 1100–1200 Old French juge, from Latin judex] noun | verb judgejudge2 ●●● S3 W3 verb (judged, judging) 1OPINION [intransitive, transitive] to form or give an opinion about someone or something according to what you know, see, hear, etc.: He seems like a nice guy, but it’s too early to judge.judge somebody/something by something You shouldn’t judge a person by their past.judge somebody/something on something A public library is judged on how well it serves people.judge somebody/something (to be) something We believe the experiment will be judged a success. I’d say she’s pretty rich, judging from her clothes (=after looking at her clothes).judge who/whether/what etc. It was hard to judge whether he was telling the truth. Come and see the play and judge for yourself (=form your own opinion).THESAURUSevaluate formal – to judge how good, useful, or successful someone or something is, usually with some kind of test: The survey was supposed to evaluate customer satisfaction.assess formal – to judge someone’s level of skill or how good, bad, etc. something is: Psychologists will assess the child’s behavior.gauge – to judge what someone is likely to do or how he or she feels, especially by watching and listening: I was trying to gauge how much she understood about the situation.appraise – to judge the effectiveness of something: The company regularly appraises the performance of its employees.grade – to judge how good a test or a piece of school work is, and give it a letter or number that represents its quality: Teachers spend a lot of time grading students’ work in the evenings.review – to give your opinion about how good or bad something is, especially a new movie, book, play, etc., by writing a newspaper or magazine article: He reviews movies for Time Magazine.2COMPETITION [intransitive, transitive] to decide on the result of a competition: Who’s judging the talent contest?judge somebody on something The gymnasts are judged on skill and strength.3CRITICIZE [intransitive, transitive] to form an opinion about someone in an unfair or criticizing way: I try not to judge other people.4LAW [transitive] law to decide whether someone is guilty of a crime in court: judge somebody guilty/innocent If he’s judged guilty, he will go to jail for at least four years.5GUESS [intransitive, transitive] to guess an amount, distance, height, weight, etc. SYN estimate: I have a hard time judging ages, but the baby looked about six months old.6don’t judge a book by its cover used to say that you should not form an opinion based only on the way someone or something looks7it’s not for somebody to judge (also who is somebody to judge?) used to say that you do not think someone has the right to give an opinion about something: I don’t think it was right, but who am I to judge? |
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