witnessed

英 [ˈwɪtnəst]

美 [ˈwɪtnəst]

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的过去分词和过去式

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

• The idea that she witnessed this shameful incident meant nothing to him
  虽然她目睹了这可耻的一幕，但是这对他来说无关紧要。
• I witnessed the accident.
  我亲眼目睹了这场事故。
• The nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in ship design and propulsion.
  19世纪船舶设计和船舶动力领域发生了重大的变革。
• The beginning of20th century witnessed an impoverished and enfeebled China that slumbered in dim prospects.
  20世纪初的中国，是一个贫穷落后前途一片暗淡的景象！
• Perhaps you've some doubts about the attack. In that case it may interest you to know that Miss Woods witnessed it
  你也许对这起袭击还有些怀疑。那么如果我告诉你伍兹小姐亲眼目睹了这起事件，你可能会感兴趣。
• It was the quickest swimming lesson I'd ever witnessed.
  这是我所见过的最速成的游泳课。
• I certify that I witnessed the signing of this document.
  本人为此项文件签字过程之见证人。
• He witnessed the battle.
  他亲眼目睹了那场战斗。
• Yesterday the Belgian newspaper Le Soir quoted a professor who said he witnessed the killings
  昨天比利时《晚报》援引了一名自称目击了谋杀经过的教授的话。
• Over the past two years we have witnessed the proliferation of TV channels.
  在过去两年中，我们目睹了电视频道的激增。