witnesses

英 [ˈwɪtnəsɪz]

美 [ˈwɪtnəsɪz]

n.  目击者; 见证人; 证人; 连署人
v.  当场看到，目击(尤指罪行或事故); 是发生…的地点(或时间、组织等); 见证; (为正式文件的签署)作证，连署
witness的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 见证人;目击者
  Awitness toan event such as an accident or crime is a person who saw it.
  1. 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。
  2. No witnesses have come forward.
     没有目击证人站出来。
• VERB 目击;目睹
  If youwitnesssomething, you see it happen.
  1. Anyone who witnessed the attack should call the police...
     目睹这次袭击的人都应向警方报告。
  2. 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
  Awitnessis someone who appears in a court of law to say what they know about a crime or other event.
  1. 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。
• 见证人;连署人
  Awitnessis 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 someonewitnessesyour signature on a document, they write their name after it, to confirm that it really is your signature.
  1. 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 personwitnesseda particular event or change, you mean that it happened in that place, during that period of time, or while that person was alive.
  1. India has witnessed many political changes in recent years...
     印度近年来经历了很多政治变动。
  2. 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。
  3. At present, we are witnessing another building boom.
     当前，我们又一次处于建筑繁荣期。
• VERB 以…为证;…便是明证
  You usewitnessto introduce an example of what you have just been talking about.
  1. 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 youare witness tosomething, you see it happen.
  1. 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 thingbears witness tosomething, they show or say that it exists or happened.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• One of the witnesses was disabled in this disaster.
  一个目击者在这场灾难中残废了。
• Select committees have the power to subpoena witnesses
  特别委员会有权传唤证人出庭作证。
• The lorries always left in the dead of night when there were few witnesses around to record the fact.
  这些卡车一般都在夜深人静的时候开走，那时候周围没什么人，不会被看到。
• Detectives are appealing for witnesses who may have seen anything suspicious
  探员呼吁看到任何可疑情况的人进行举报。
• I'm just killing time until I can talk to the other witnesses
  在和其他目击者交谈前我只是在打发时间。
• We have a list of witnesses and suspects.
  我们有一份证人和嫌疑人名单。
• We agreed that the only thing I could do would be to call Brooks in the presence of witnesses and button this thing down.
  我们一致认为，我能做的唯一的事就是把布鲁克斯叫到证人面前，澄清这件事。
• Look for witnesses and other victims.
  寻找目击者和其他受害者。
• Mr Robins, suffering from selective amnesia about his role in the affair, was contradicted in nearly every instance by other witnesses.
  对于自己在该事件中所扮演的角色，罗宾斯先生患上了选择性失忆症，因此几乎在每次庭审中都会受到其他证人的反驳。
• Two more witnesses were called, heard and dismissed
  又有两个目击者被传唤，提供证言后获准退席。