in the dock

基本解释

Iran hates these sanctions because at the UN it was in the dock of world opinion and it was found guilty yet again.
伊朗厌恶这些制裁是因为它在联合国受到了世界舆论的审问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，但穿着灰色的裤子和深蓝色的衬衫，这个正在受审的男人的形象是一个正渐渐老去的学校老师。
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，但是在社会舆论指出，这次是马来西亚司法部和政治家们面临一个持怀疑态度的国家的评判。

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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