Esme: Glad you're here. We need an umpire.
在一些體育比賽中，這類人員不叫umpire，而是referee。
Cricket keeps an off-field umpire for boundary calls, and to ascertain whether batsmen are run out, and if catches are real.
Think of what would happen to the base-runner called safe at home-plate who said to the umpire, “Excuse me, sir, but although you missed it, I failed to touch third base.”
The umpire gave him out .
An umpire must be an entirely disinterested but keen observer.
An umpire is of course the official who enforces the rules in baseball and a number of other sports.
The umpire shall be the judge of the men and shall note the fouls and notify the referee when three consecutive fouls have been made.
Officials include an umpire, service judge, line umpire and scorer.
In some sports the official isn't called an umpire but a referee instead.
After the line judge reported her to the umpire for verbal abuse, Williams added: "I never said I would kill you, are you serious?"
以前我談過，理查德•萊德勒（譯註：美國語言專家）曾經提及一個背景十分有趣的單詞。 那個詞是umpire（裁判員，仲裁人）。
The spectators were disappointed at the unfair decision by the umpire.
The other day I mentioned that Richard Lederer had brought up a word with an interesting background and “umpire” is the word.
The umpire declared that we won the game.
Criminal retrial system is a kind of special relief procedure to rehear the already effective umpire in order to correct the judicial inaccuracy and protect the judicial fairness and authority.
When the umpire says you are out, it is useless to argue because his decision is irrevocable.
Indeed, the conclusions of different groups of researchers are so contradictory they could give a tennis umpire whiplash.
Sometimes when the ball is caught the umpire cannot be sure if the ball has touched the edge of the bat.
The tennis umpire wore a white glove.
We need someone to umpire.
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