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barristers

/bar-uh-ster/US // ˈbær ə stər //UK // (ˈbærɪstə) //

大律师,大律师们,大律師,大律師們

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Law.

    • : a lawyer who is a member of one of the Inns of Court and who has the privilege of pleading in the higher courts.Compare solicitor.
    • : Informal. any lawyer.

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Examples

  • In 1979, Andrew’s Alternative Miss World contest fought off legal action from another event with the help of a budding young defense barrister – future British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

  • Alamuddin was invited to become a barrister, an elite group of British lawyers, in 2010.

  • The dean told him face to face that Africans lacked the innate skills necessary to become a barrister.

  • It tells the story a British barrister, a criminal lawyer, in mid-life crisis.

  • Cherie Blair is a leading international barrister specializing in human-rights law.

  • The founder, Motilal Nehru, an Anglophile barrister, was a liberal member of the Indian nationalist movement.

  • From the dinner they proceeded to another place or two; and on getting home, towards one in the morning, there was the barrister.

  • "I never had a letter in my life but I turned it over to make sure," observed the more careful barrister.

  • Here—stop and look—is the epitaph of one, a considerable fellow in his day, a barrister of the Middle Temple.

  • He sent the barrister into the drawing room, went upstairs for Anne, and brought her in on his arm.

  • To the barrister's surprise, a well-dressed and really rather gentlemanly man entered.