witness

[英] [ˈwitnis] [美] [ˈwɪtnɪs] 生词本

n.

vt.

vi.

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1. N-COUNT 见证人;目击者 A witness to an event such as an accident or crime is a person who saw it. 
  • Witnesses to the crash say they saw an explosion just before the disaster...

    空难目击者称,就在灾难发生之前他们看见飞机发生了爆炸。

  • No witnesses have come forward.

    没有目击证人站出来。

2. VERB 目击;目睹 If you witness something, you see it happen. 
  • Anyone who witnessed the attack should call the police...

    目睹这次袭击的人都应向警方报告。

  • It was the quickest swimming lesson I'd ever witnessed.

    这是我所见过的最速成的游泳课。

3. N-COUNT (出庭的)证人 A witness is someone who appears in a court of law to say what they know about a crime or other event. 
  • In the next three or four days, eleven witnesses will be called to testify.

    接下来的三四天里,将传唤11名证人出庭作证。

4. N-COUNT 见证人;连署人 A witness is someone who writes their name on a document that you have signed, to confirm that it really is your signature. 
5. VERB 为(文件的签署)作证;连署 If someone witnesses your signature on a document, they write their name after it, to confirm that it really is your signature. 
  • Ask a friend to witness your signature.

    请一位朋友给你的签名作证。

6. VERB 见证,经历(事件、变化等) If you say that a place, period of time, or person witnessed a particular event or change, you mean that it happened in that place, during that period of time, or while that person was alive. 
  • India has witnessed many political changes in recent years...

    印度近年来经历了很多政治变动。

  • The year 1886 witnessed the first extended translation into English of the writings of Eliphas Levi...

    1886年,埃利法斯·莱维的作品第一次有了长篇英译本。

  • At present, we are witnessing another building boom.

    当前,我们又一次处于建筑繁荣期。

7. VERB 以…为证;…便是明证 You use witness to introduce an example of what you have just been talking about. 
  • Americans are a generous people: witness the increase in charitable giving, even during the recession.

    美国人是个慷慨的民族:即使是在经济萧条时期,慈善捐赠也在不断增加,这便是明证。

8. PHRASE 是…的见证人;是…的目击者 If you are witness to something, you see it happen. 
  • Too often children are witness to a disturbing amount of violence.

    孩子们经常会目睹暴力事件,其数量之多令人不安。

9. PHRASE 证明;为…作证 If a person or thing bears witness to something, they show or say that it exists or happened. 
  • Many of these poems bear witness to his years spent in India and China...

    这些诗中有很多见证了他在印度和中国度过的岁月。

  • Many veterans believe it is their job to bear witness to the horrors of war that they personally experienced.

    很多老兵认为他们有职责为他们亲身经历的战争的恐怖作证。

Noun

1. someone who sees an event and reports what happened

2. a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind);

  • "the spectators applauded the performance"
  • "television viewers"
  • "sky watchers discovered a new star"

3. testimony by word or deed to your religious faith

4. (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature

5. (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law

Verb

1. be a witness to

2. perceive or be contemporaneous with;

  • "We found Republicans winning the offices"
  • "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"
  • "I want to see results"
  • "The 1960 saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"
  • "I want to see results"

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1. A witness gave testimony that the accused was drunk.
一个证人提供的证据说被告当时喝醉酒了。

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2. A witness picked him out of an identification parade as the robber.
一名目击者将他从辨认队列中指认出来,说他就是抢匪。

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3. A witness was examined by him in a court of law.
他在法庭上质问一个证人。

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4. An important witness was absent when the case came up.
开庭时,有个重要的证人没有出席。

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5. He appeared as a witness in the trial.
在审判中他出庭作证。

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6. He asked the witness to stand down.
他要证人离席。

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7. He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.
他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。

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8. He gave witness on behalf of an accused person.
他为被告作证。

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9. He was summoned as a witness.
他被传唤出庭作证。

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10. Her actions witness to her trustworthiness.
她的行为证明她是可以信赖的。

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11. His testimony contradicted that of the preceding witness.
他的证词和前一位的互相矛盾。

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12. History is the most telling witness.
历史是最好的见证。

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13. I shall prove to you that the witness is quite unreliable.
我将向你证明,证人十分不可靠。

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14. I was an unwilling witness of their quarrel.
我不愿做他们吵架的见证人。

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15. I'm really terrified to witness the slaughter.
我亲眼目睹这场屠杀,真吓得毛发倒竖。

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16. Let me, as a witness, tell them what happened so that they will not be wrongly informed.
让我这个目击者来告诉他们所发生的事情,也免得以讹传讹。

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17. Line up these men and see if the witness can recognize the criminal.
让这些人站成一排看看见证人能否从中把罪犯认出来。

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18. No one could witness that he was present.
没有人能证明他在现场。

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19. None could witness that he was present.
没有人能证明他在场。

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20. She brought several persons of good credit to witness to her reputation.
她带来几位很有声誉的人物为她的名誉作证。

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