witness

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈwɪtnɪs'wɪtnɪs]
• 美式音标 [ˈwɪt.nəs]
• 国际音标 ['witnis]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. 証人；目擊者；証據
• vt. 目擊；証明；爲…作証
• vi. 作証人
• n. (Witness)人名；(津)威特尼斯

词源解说

• 直接源自古英語的witnes，意爲事件。

词根记忆

• wit(知道，了解) + ness→知道或了解情況的人→証人
• 智力(wit)不正常的人不能作証(witness)
• wit(知道，了解) + ness→知道或了解情況→目擊，作証

同根派生

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用法辨析

v. (動詞)

• witness的基本意思是“親眼看見”“目擊”某事件的發生,也可表示“作証”“証明”,還有“表示”“說明”的意思。
• witness一般用作及物動詞,接名詞、代詞、動名詞或that從句作賓語。

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英汉例句

用作名詞 (n.)

• She was a witness of the incident.
  她是這起事件的目擊者。

用作動詞 (v.)

用作及物動詞: S+～+ n./pron.

• I witnessed the accident.
  我親眼目睹了這場事故。

S+～+that-clause

• None could witness that he was present.
  沒有人能証明他在現場。

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词组短语

用作名詞 (n.)

動詞+～

• bear 〔stand〕 witness 作証
• examine 〔summon〕 a witness 訊問〔傳喚〕証人

形容詞+～

• false witness 偽証
• key witness 關鍵的証人
• powerful witness 有力的証據

名詞+～

• defense 〔prosecution〕 witness 被告〔原告〕方証人
• eye witness 目擊者，見証人

介詞+～

• in witness of 作爲…的証據

～+介詞

• witness against 對…作不利的証明

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• (SEE) a person who sees an event happening, especially a crime or an accident
• (LAW) a person in a law court who says what they know about a legal case or a particular person
• (BE PRESENT) to see something happen, especially an accident or crime
• (HAPPEN) When a place or period witnesses a particular event, the event happens in that place or during that period.
• (SHOW) to show or give proof of something

柯林斯英英字典

• A witness to an event such as an accident or crime is a person who saw it.
• If you witness something, you see it happen.
• A witness is someone who appears in a court of law to say what they know about a crime or other event.
• A witness is someone who writes their name on a document that you have signed, to confirm that it really is your signature.
• If someone witnesses your signature on a document, they write their name after it, to confirm that it really is your signature.
• 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.

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专业释义

法學

• 証據
• 証言
• 証人作証

  Secondly we should adopt the limitary immunity. Thirdly the prosecutor starts up the stain witness testimony system.
  第四部分是思考如何搆建我國的汙點証人作証豁免制度。

• 証人

歷史學

• 見証

  The emergence and spread of the faith in King Guangfu is actually a witness of Guilin’s development and the incorporation of periphery cultures of different ethic groups into the mainstream culture.
  廣福王信仰的興起和傳播,其實是桂林的開發和周邊不同族群、不同文化被納入主流話語的見証。

  測繪科學技術

• 証示線

能源科學技術

• 目擊者

交通運輸工程

• 証人

計算機科學技術

• 見証