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. 证人；目击者；证据
• vt. 目击；证明；为…作证
• vi. 作证人
• n. (Witness)人名；(津)威特尼斯

词源解说

• 直接源自古英语的witnes，意为事件。

词根记忆

• wit(知道，了解) + ness→知道或了解情况的人→证人
• 智力(wit)不正常的人不能作证(witness)
• wit(知道，了解) + ness→知道或了解情况→目击，作证

同根派生

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用法辨析

v. (动词)

• witness的基本意思是“亲眼看见”“目击”某事件的发生,也可表示“作证”“证明”,还有“表示”“说明”的意思。
• witness一般用作及物动词,接名词、代词、动名词或that从句作宾语。

• witness使用方法
• witness详细辨析

英汉例句

用作名词 (n.)

• She was a witness of the incident.
  她是这起事件的目击者。

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

• I witnessed the accident.
  我亲眼目睹了这场事故。

S+～+that-clause

• None could witness that he was present.
  没有人能证明他在现场。

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词组短语

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• bear 〔stand〕 witness 作证
• examine 〔summon〕 a witness 讯问〔传唤〕证人

形容词+～

• false witness 伪证
• key witness 关键的证人
• powerful witness 有力的证据

名词+～

• defense 〔prosecution〕 witness 被告〔原告〕方证人
• eye witness 目击者，见证人

介词+～

• in witness of 作为…的证据

～+介词

• witness against 对…作不利的证明

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• (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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• witness柯林斯字典

专业释义

法学

• 证据
• 证言
• 证人作证

  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构建我国的污点证人作证豁免制度。

• 证人

历史学

• 见证

  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.
  广福王信仰的兴起和传播,其实是桂林的开发和周边不同族群、不同文化被纳入主流话语的见证。

  测绘科学技术

• 证示线

能源科学技术

• 目击者

交通运输工程

• 证人

计算机科学技术

• 见证