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eyewitness

/noun ahy-wit-nis, ahy-wit-nis; verb ahy-wit-nis/US // noun ˈaɪˌwɪt nɪs, ˈaɪˈwɪt nɪs; verb ˈaɪˌwɪt nɪs //UK // (ˈaɪˌwɪtnɪs) //

目击者,目击证人,眼见为实,见证人

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who actually sees some act, occurrence, or thing and can give a firsthand account of it: There were two eyewitnesses to the murder.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to view with one's own eyes: to eyewitness a murder.

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Examples

  • An eyewitness spotted Boever walking along the north shoulder shortly before the crash.

  • What triggered the deadly flood has been a mystery — but after amassing evidence from satellite images, seismic records and eyewitness accounts, a team of over 50 scientists now say they have solved the case.

  • She returned to old crime scenes on her nights and weekends to double-check eyewitness accounts, sometimes bringing her spouse along for safety.

  • After an image of the incident surfaced, however, along with an eyewitness allegation that the crew had illegally fed the animals, the backlash was swift.

  • Otherwise, we might not fully believe the eyewitnesses who still describe Bad Brains as the greatest live band to ever visit our plane.

  • Obama said, through laughter, according to an eyewitness report of the meeting in The Telegraph.

  • Mr Obama said, through laughter, according to an eyewitness report of the meeting in The Telegraph.

  • The framing was that I had the power to stop a criminal by putting him behind bars through direct eyewitness testimony.

  • One eyewitness reported seeing the police force students out of another bus at gunpoint.

  • With them go our only eyewitness accounts of the real effects of nuclear war.

  • Then, having finished the eyewitness part of his task, he recalled a section of road over which he had passed, and pushed.

  • Never mind; let us talk of cut and thrust, as though I were an eyewitness.

  • "A grand spectacle for an unconcerned eyewitness," said an officer to his neighbor.

  • A calmer eyewitness quite absolves the Bude men from all blame—to render more help had been impossible.

  • Calamities of which he himself was at once an eyewitness and a most faithful recorder.