witness的中文翻译是什么意思

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。

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。

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。

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.

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。