witnesses是什么意思？

witnesses

• n. 目击者( witness的名词复数 )，证词，见证（以言行证实信仰），见证人；
• v. 作证( witness的第三人称单数 )，表示，（摆证据）…就是证据，是…的迹象；

例句

• The police are still questioning witnesses and gathering information. 警方仍在讯问目击证人以搜集信息。
• The witnesses were struck dumb with terror. 目击者都吓懵了。
• By then, all the witnesses were six feet under. 到那时，所有的证人都埋在了黃土之下。
• Her story didn’t jibe with the witnesses’ account. 她的说法和证人的描述有出入。
• The gang silenced witnesses by intimidation. 恶帮用恐吓的手段, 使得证人不敢说话。
• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said. 证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• The evidence was corroborated by two independent witnesses. 此证据由两名独立证人提供。
• Several witnesses can attest to her good character. 好几位证人证实她品行端正。
• I can find no appreciable differences in the witnesses’ descriptions of the accident, they seem the same. 在我看来, 证人们对事故的描述没有什么明显的区别, 都是一样的。
• Evidence is given on oath and witnesses are subject to cross - examination . 证人宣誓后作证,并接受 盘问.

英语六级真题

At Jackson's trial, although two witnesses testified that Jackson was with them in another location at the times of the crimes, he was convicted anyway.
出自-2012年6月听力原文
For instance, witnesses sometimes see photographs of several suspects before they try to identify the person they saw in a lineup of people
出自-2012年6月听力原文
The questions the police ask witnesses also have an effect on them.
出自-2012年6月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• 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.
  例句
  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.
  例句
  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.
  例句
  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.
  例句
  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.
  例句
  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.
  例句
  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.
  例句
  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.
  例句
  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。