witness

witness什么意思

noun

1. testimony by word or deed to your religious faith

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

e.g. the spectators applauded the performance
television viewers
sky watchers discovered a new star

Synonym: spectatorviewerwatcherlooker

3. someone who sees an event and reports what happened

Synonym: witnesserinformant

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

Synonym: attestantattestorattestator

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

verb

1. be a witness to

e.g. She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court

2. perceive or be contemporaneous with

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

Synonym: findsee

1. 见证人;目击者
A witness to an event such as an accident or crime is a person who saw it.

witness的近义词

e.g. 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。
e.g. No witnesses have come forward.
没有目击证人站出来。

2. 目击;目睹
If you witness something, you see it happen.

e.g. Anyone who witnessed the attack should call the police...
目睹这次袭击的人都应向警方报告。
e.g. 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. (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.

witness在线翻译

e.g. 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. 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. 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.

e.g. Ask a friend to witness your signature.
请一位朋友给你的签名作证。

6. 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.

e.g. India has witnessed many political changes in recent years...
印度近年来经历了很多政治变动。
e.g. 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。

7. 以…为证;…便是明证
You use witness to introduce an example of what you have just been talking about.

e.g. 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. 是…的见证人;是…的目击者
If you are witness to something, you see it happen.

e.g. 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. 证明;为…作证
If a person or thing bears witness to something, they show or say that it exists or happened.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

1. 证明：159)证明(witness)观念已经误导了许多人,使他们对神圣灵的影响形成错误的概念. 他们用这一词意指一种内在的直接暗示,仿佛上帝与一人暗语,直接测试他,用一种秘密的声音或印象告诉他,他是上帝的子民. 他们并没有认识到,