in the dock

基本解釋

Iran hates these sanctions because at the UN it was in the dock of world opinion and it was found guilty yet again.
伊朗厭惡這些制裁是因?yàn)樗诼?lián)合國受到了世界輿論的審問并且又一次被判了有罪。
SLIGHT, well-kempt in grey trousers and a powder-blue shirt, the man in the dock cut the image of an ageing schoolteacher.
消廋，但穿著灰色的褲子和深藍(lán)色的襯衫，這個(gè)正在受審的男人的形象是一個(gè)正漸漸老去的學(xué)校老師。
He is in the dock again, but in the court of public opinion it is Malaysia’s judiciary and its political masters who face the judgment of a sceptical nation.
他又一次站在了被告席，但是在社會(huì)輿論指出，這次是馬來西亞司法部和政治家們面臨一個(gè)持懷疑態(tài)度的國家的評(píng)判。

Steve Ember tells us more. A View from the Bridge is about Eddie Carbone, a dock worker living in the Brooklyn area of New York during the nineteen fifties.
It's four o'clock in the morning and the 68-year-old fisherman is dragging a plastic trunk of fish carcasses across the dock toward his boat.

In practice, the chance of his ending up in the dock is not that high.
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But what matters even more is that Labour is once again in the dock for incompetence.
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