mid-15c., "act or process of testing, a putting to proof by examination, experiment, etc.," from Anglo-French trial, noun formed from triet "to try" (see try (v.)). Sense of "examining and deciding of the issues between parties in a court of law" is first recorded 1570s; extended to any ordeal by 1590s. As an adjectival phrase, trial-and-error is recorded from 1806. Trial balloon (1826) translates French ballon d'essai, a small balloon sent up immediately before a manned ascent to determine the direction and tendency of winds in the upper air, though the earliest use in English is figurative.
例文
1. I gather his report is highly critical of the trial judge.
私の知る限りでは、彼は記事の中で容赦なく初審裁判官を批判した。
2.They called for the return of internment without trial for terrorists.
彼らはテロリストに対して尋問なしで拘束政策を再実施するよう呼びかけている。
3.His trial revived memories of French suffering during the war.
彼の裁判は、戦争で苦労したフランス国民の思い出を再び呼び起こした。
4.The defence counsel warned that the judge should stop the trial .
被告弁護士は裁判官に休廷すべきだと強くアドバイスした。
5.They floated the trial balloon of actually cutting Social Security.