Coroner
['kɒr(ə)nə] or ['kɔrənɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes.
整理:弗娜--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred.
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解释:
n. an officer whose duty is to hold inquest into the causes of accidental or suspicious deaths.
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例句:
- It must be either publicly by setting the magistrate and coroner to work, or privately by questioning Lydgate. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Little Swills is waiting for the coroner and jury on their return. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The coroner's jury found that he took the poison accidentally. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The Coroner: What did you understand by that? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- He is understood to be in want of witnesses for the inquest to-morrow who can tell the coroner and jury anything whatever respecting the deceased. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Well, gentlemen, resumes the coroner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Says the coroner, go and fetch him then. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the coroner's jury. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Who is often almost as ignorant as the coroner himself, said Lydgate. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Says the coroner, is that boy here? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way as to deceive a coroner's jury. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- You are aware, I suppose, that it is not the coroner's business to conduct the post-mortem, but only to take the evidence of the medical witness? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The Coroner: What do you mean? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Ask Coroners who sit at inquests in large towns if that is true, Lady Glyde. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- There are a few dirty scraps of newspapers, all referring to coroners' inquests; there is nothing else. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
录入:斯威尼