Arraign (續：控訴 公然侮辱 單字大集合)

arraign



Y

[uh-reyn]

傳訊,提訊,控告



D

–verb (used with object) 

1. to call 

or 

bring before a court to answer to an indictment. 



2. to accuse or charge in general; criticize adversely; censure. 



 　

Looking into their faces, I sense a curious slackness, an inattention, as if the trial is a mirage, and their thoughts far away. If they're guilty, it's like they're rehearsing their excuses for the crime. If they're innocent, maybe those empty expressions mean the courtroom experience is so alien they can't process it. Not once since he was arraigned have I caught a shot of Simpson looking normal in any way I can understand. His expression always seems to be signifying, "Yes, but ..."





。法律

。執法人員

。違法

。開庭

Forensic



arraign

call or bring before a court to answer to an indictment

Not once since he was [arraigned] have I caught a shot of Simpson looking normal in any way I can understand. 傳訊,提訊,控告

We'll formally arraign the defendant on his return.



。控訴

litigation

litigious

l don't even want to think about the litigious possibilities.

caveat

a legal notice to a court or public officer to suspend a certain proceeding until the notifier is given a hearing

These are the laws of cause and effect as they work in Primer, albeit with a few more [caveats] that shall be explained below. 

But! But. The caveat. If I smell a rat, if you didn't find something you've never had the courage to say before, I don't pass you. You don't get out of here.



impute

attribute, particularly a crime or a fault

The police impute the rise in crime [to] high unemployment.

impugn 

challenge the truth or integrity of something, attack its veracity

She impugned his stated [reasons] for resigning. 

Well, a long time ago, a lot of people believed the world was flat. Well, at this late date, do you wish to impugn the [integrity] ofthe jury and the court?

indict 

(of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against



recrimination 

countercharge

He meets and falls in love with rival revolutionary Veronica Dreyer, and the mutual recriminations begin.


in the midst of all of this activity, the writers set up a fascinating contrast, in adjacent scenes, between Halloran, his wife, and their young son looking toward the future, with the parents of the dead woman, looking back with bitter regret and recriminations -- no movie ever presented in more subtle fashion the contrast between the zeitgeist of the 1930s and that of the postwar era .


rebut

confute

refute 

to prove to be erroneous, rebut & confute... 

I refute the [accusation] that "I have coupled the name of a revered author with a perversion of the sexual instinct,"

apologia

an apology, as in defense or justification of a belief, idea, etc

Literature. a work written as an explanation or justification of one's motives, convictions, or acts 

Unfortunately, it's closer to the yuppies-in-danger subgenre of the 1980s (Pacific Heights, Hand That Rocks the Cradle, et al.), but with new-age apologias standing in for those films' [pulpy] shocks and bloody horror.



demur

pronounced di-MUHR

make objection, esp. on the grounds of scruples (n. v.)

To demur means "to delay, to hesitate because of doubts" as in Tom’s concerns over finances caused him to demur.

He combines his [firm] but friendly demurral with a huge not-too-fake-white smile and I suddenly understand why every woman I know (and teenage girls [galore]) are [doolally] for Gosling.

demurral

demurrer

Law. a pleading in effect that even if the facts are as alleged by the opposite party, they do not sustain the contention based on them. 

[What] he registered is called a demur or a demurral, each of which is an objection, 

or—if it’s a matter of law—a demurrer, which he may file when he believes that whether the evidence is true or not, it will not support the allegations before the court.

Confusingly, a demurrer can also be "[one] who demurs," [tacking] the agentive ending onto the verb demur. 

demurrage

cf. Choppy

Demurrage is another sort of delay, a technical term from the shipping business, meaning "the amount charged the shipper for delay of the ship beyond the agreed-upon time for loading and unloading the cargo"; it can be expressed in money or time.



proscribe

denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful, prohibit

put outside the protection of the law, outlaw 

banish or exile

announce the name of (a person) as condemned to death and subject to confiscation of property 

proscription

One must constantly observe the proscriptions of a [primitive] system of cause and effect that can be questioned only by the reckless or the ignorant. 



。公然侮辱

virility

vilify 

speak ill of, defame, slander

Celebrated and [vilified] in equal measure, the pinup goddess Bettie Page inspired a [legion] of followers,

slander

libel

Law. defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures

Still, the dinner is a success. The guests whisper [filthy] slanders to the persons next to them about the persons across from them just like at dinner parties everywhere.

She's libel to take all day.



ignominy 

disgrace, dishonor, public contempt 

ignominious

Los Angeles has the ignominious distinction of being the homeless capital of the nation, and skid row is ground zero of the crisis.

contumely n.

insulting display of contempt in words or actions

mortify 

to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect

subjugate (the body, passions, etc.) by abstinence

subjugation

bring under complete control or subjection, conquer, master

make submissive or subservient, enslave 

With no other frame of reference, the innocent Ducasse accepts the subjugation of the black natives by the white [colonists] as the natural order of things. 

Wedekind always worked in lurid metaphoric colors, and Innocence is a fable of puberty told not as awakening but as subjugation. p

affront a. n.

to insult, offend deliberately

I couldn’t forgive his [affront] to [of] his mother.

a sneak thief [ransacking] his own broken home for self-serving material—and some critics at the Toronto film festival this year took Margot as a [scathing] matricidal affront.

















Arraign