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witnessing

/wit-nis/US // ˈwɪt nɪs //UK // (ˈwɪtnɪs) //

作证,见证,见证会,目击

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to see, hear, or know by personal presence and perception: to witness an accident.
    • : to be present at as a formal witness, spectator, bystander, etc.: She witnessed our wedding.
    • : to bear witness to; testify to; give or afford evidence of.
    • : to attest by one's signature: He witnessed her will.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to bear witness; testify; give or afford evidence.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an individual who, being present, personally sees or perceives a thing; a beholder, spectator, or eyewitness.
    • : a person or thing that affords evidence.
    • : a person who gives testimony, as in a court of law.
    • : a person who signs a document attesting the genuineness of its execution.
    • : testimony or evidence: to bear witness to her suffering.
    • : a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses.

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Examples

  • In that case, a lower court blocked South Carolina’s witness requirement on the theory that it imposed too high a burden on voters who may be reluctant to interact with potential witnesses during a pandemic.

  • According to a witness, Lopez-Sales was riding his bike on the sidewalk along East Capitol Street and then entered the roadway into the travel lanes seconds before the collision, the statement said.

  • In addition, the General Assembly’s bills also would remove the requirement for a witness to certify a ballot signature.

  • It meant some ballots mailed out hours or a day earlier without a witness signature counted, while later ones didn’t.

  • We’ll have to see how they fare in depositions and on the witness stand, but it’s another way the new case falls short.

  • White people of this generation are witnessing what we have always lived, survived.

  • It was like witnessing the last two weeks of the life of a blind and toothless dog you knew the vet was just itching to destroy.

  • More than a few joined after witnessing 9/11, and some had even experienced it firsthand in Manhattan or DC.

  • The violence we are witnessing today is no greater in its bloody intensity than it has been throughout our history.

  • Watching the World Cup is not just about witnessing a few over-compensated superstars pulling off impressive feats.

  • A few days before my departure from Singapore, I had an opportunity of witnessing the burial of a Chinese in easy circumstances.

  • After witnessing the farewell at Fontainebleu, he came back to his mother in July, 1814, being then hardly nineteen.

  • Calendau, after witnessing the lascivious dances, challenges the Count to mortal combat.

  • Mr Bellingham looked graver than he had done while witnessing Ruth's passionate emotion in her mother's room.

  • Some idlers of the town were the only witnesses—and little did they guess the extent of the tragedy they were witnessing.