Coroner
['kɒr(ə)nə] or ['kɔrənɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes.
整理:弗娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
巴塞洛缪校對
解釋/意思:
n. an officer whose duty is to hold inquest into the causes of accidental or suspicious deaths.
伊娃手打
例句/造句/用法:
- It must be either publicly by setting the magistrate and coroner to work, or privately by questioning Lydgate. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Little Swills is waiting for the coroner and jury on their return. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The coroner's jury found that he took the poison accidentally. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The Coroner: What did you understand by that? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Well, gentlemen, resumes the coroner. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Says the coroner, go and fetch him then. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Who is often almost as ignorant as the coroner himself, said Lydgate. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Says the coroner, is that boy here? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way as to deceive a coroner's jury. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- 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? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The Coroner: What do you mean? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Ask Coroners who sit at inquests in large towns if that is true, Lady Glyde. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- There are a few dirty scraps of newspapers, all referring to coroners' inquests; there is nothing else. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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