witness的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-COUNT見證人;目擊者

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...

  空難目擊者稱，就在災難發生之前他們看見飛機發生了爆炸。

• No witnesses have come forward.

  沒有目擊證人站出來。

VERB目擊;目睹

If you witness something, you see it happen.

• Anyone who witnessed the attack should call the police...

  目睹這次襲擊的人都應向警方報告。

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

  這是我所見過的最速成的游泳課。

N-COUNT(出庭的)證人

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.

  接下來的三四天裡，將傳喚11名證人出庭作證。

N-COUNT見證人;連署人

A witness is someone who writes their name on a document that you have signed, to confirm that it really is your signature.

VERB為(檔案的簽署)作證;連署

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.

  請一位朋友給你的簽名作證。

VERB見證，經歷(事件、變化等)

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...

  印度近年來經歷了很多政治變動。

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

  1886年，埃利法斯·萊維的作品第一次有了長篇英譯本。

VERB以…為證;…便是明證

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.

  美國人是個慷慨的民族：即使是在經濟蕭條時期，慈善捐贈也在不斷增加，這便是明證。

PHRASE是…的見證人;是…的目擊者

If you are witness to something, you see it happen.

• Too often children are witness to a disturbing amount of violence.

  孩子們經常會目睹暴力事件,其數量之多令人不安。

PHRASE證明;為…作證

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...

  這些詩中有很多見證了他在印度和中國度過的歲月。

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

  很多老兵認為他們有職責為他們親身經歷的戰爭的恐怖作證。