witnessing

英 [ˈwɪtnəsɪŋ]

美 [ˈwɪtnəsɪŋ]

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的现在分词

现在分词：witnessing　复数：witnessings　

法律

BNC.39158 / COCA.28485

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

• We are witnessing the disintegration of the country.
  我们在目睹着这个国家的分裂。
• We are looking forward to people from all walks of life together and witnessing the arrival of this glorious moment.
  我们将和各界人士共同期待和见证这一绚烂时刻的到来。
• He was in heaven, witnessing a grand pageant of all the little child angels.
  梦里他到了天堂，目睹了小天使们的盛会。
• The witnessing of this spiritual phenomenon changed Dr. Maria Montessori's life.
  对这种精神现象的目睹，改变了蒙台梭利博士的生活。
• Still, something is lost in witnessing Kevin in the flesh instead of through Eva's unreliable recollections.
  尽管如此，在通过本人而非经由伊娃那不可靠的回忆来目击凯文的过程中，某些东西不见了。
• We are witnessing the emergence of the "data rich" era in biology.
  我们正在见证生物学中“数据丰富”时代的出现。
• We are witnessing a fundamental change in the consciousness of Americans about their homes.
  我们正见证着美国人对其房产意识的根本性改变。
• At present, we are witnessing another building boom.
  当前，我们又一次处于建筑繁荣期。
• We are witnessing the advent of new lifestyles and new waves of thinking?
  我们是否在以这种方式见证着新的生活方式和思维方式的到来？
• We are witnessing an economic miracle.
  我们正目睹一个经济奇迹。