英语词汇jury的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	jury
词源	jury [LME] This comes from the Latin word jurare ‘to swear’. Early juries had to swear that they would give true answers to questions asked of them which related to their personal knowledge of an event they had witnessed or experienced. If you did not do this you committed perjury [LME] from the Latin for ‘false oath’.
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