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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

  • witness

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。

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。

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

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.

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