| 单词 | to bear witness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto bear witness P2. to bear witness: (of a person, a book, etc.) to give oral or written testimony or evidence; hence figurative to furnish or constitute evidence or proof; to testify, witness to (occasionally of). to bear (one) witness: to corroborate one's statement or be a witness of one's action. (Cf. Old Norse bera vitni, Old French porter temoin.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > bear witness, testify [verb (intransitive)] to bear (one) witnesslOE witne?c1225 to bear witnessinga1300 to bear recordc1330 testimonyc1330 testify1377 witnessc1380 recordc1400 militatec1600 suffragate1620 testate1624 depone1640 attest1672 rap1728 certify1874 certificate1907 lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1127 He wæs an hæfod ða að to swerene & witnesse to berene þær ða eorles sunu of Normandi & þes eorles dohter of Angeow wæron totwemde. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 12616 I barr to þe leode. Wittness off himm. þatt he wass wiss. Crist godess sune. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6604 Ich habbe his munekes..þat sculleð witnesse beren eowe alle biuoren. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 2356 Certys þefte ryȝt wykked ys Whan þe dede bereþ wytnes [Fr. Pus qe ceo tesmoine le mort]. c1325 Spec. Gy Warw. 412 Þe godspel þerof bereþ witnesse. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 3612 Þus may saules, als þe buke beres wytnes, By helpyd by way of rightwysnes. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 527 Hire white coroun beryth of it witnesse. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xx. 29 Þre persones parcel-mele departable from oþer, And alle þre bote o god; thus abraam bereþ wittnesse. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12582 Als lucas vs sais þe gospelere, þat wittnes lel es wont at bere. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6820 Tak þou noght wit tunge leier, Ne fals wittenes for felun ber. 1426 Anc. Deed A. 10383 (P.R.O.) This endentur tripartitit beres wittenes that [etc.]. c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert xxxvi. 113 Þe archbischop of Reymes was þere present..and bare witnesse of þe holy lyf of Seynt Gilbert. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 259 The pepill so wickit ar of feiris, The frutles erde all witnes beiris. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) John viii. f. cxxxij I am won that beare witnes off my sylfe, and my father that sent me beareth witnes off me. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. i. 68 O earth, beare witnes to this sound, And crowne what I professe with kinde euent If I speake true. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iv. 78 In veritie you did, my bones beares witnesse, That since haue felt the vigor of his rage. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iv. 91 God and the Rope-maker beare me witnesse, That I was sent for nothing but a rope. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 239 In seeking just occasion to provoke The Philistine..Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness . View more context for this quotation 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer iii. 56 I can bear witness to that. 1839 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 59 Her dress..bore witness to a far more improved taste. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond x To speak of heaven..and to bring it to bear witness to the lie in his mouth. 1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 59 And I, in truth (thou wilt bear witness here) Have all in all endured as much. 1876 E. Mellor Priesthood ii. 59 The striking witness which he [sc. Judas] bore to the innocence of the Lord. to bear (one) witness P2. to bear witness: (of a person, a book, etc.) to give oral or written testimony or evidence; hence figurative to furnish or constitute evidence or proof; to testify, witness to (occasionally of). to bear (one) witness: to corroborate one's statement or be a witness of one's action. (Cf. Old Norse bera vitni, Old French porter temoin.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > bear witness, testify [verb (intransitive)] to bear (one) witnesslOE witne?c1225 to bear witnessinga1300 to bear recordc1330 testimonyc1330 testify1377 witnessc1380 recordc1400 militatec1600 suffragate1620 testate1624 depone1640 attest1672 rap1728 certify1874 certificate1907 lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1127 He wæs an hæfod ða að to swerene & witnesse to berene þær ða eorles sunu of Normandi & þes eorles dohter of Angeow wæron totwemde. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 12616 I barr to þe leode. Wittness off himm. þatt he wass wiss. Crist godess sune. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6604 Ich habbe his munekes..þat sculleð witnesse beren eowe alle biuoren. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 2356 Certys þefte ryȝt wykked ys Whan þe dede bereþ wytnes [Fr. Pus qe ceo tesmoine le mort]. c1325 Spec. Gy Warw. 412 Þe godspel þerof bereþ witnesse. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 3612 Þus may saules, als þe buke beres wytnes, By helpyd by way of rightwysnes. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 527 Hire white coroun beryth of it witnesse. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xx. 29 Þre persones parcel-mele departable from oþer, And alle þre bote o god; thus abraam bereþ wittnesse. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12582 Als lucas vs sais þe gospelere, þat wittnes lel es wont at bere. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6820 Tak þou noght wit tunge leier, Ne fals wittenes for felun ber. 1426 Anc. Deed A. 10383 (P.R.O.) This endentur tripartitit beres wittenes that [etc.]. c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert xxxvi. 113 Þe archbischop of Reymes was þere present..and bare witnesse of þe holy lyf of Seynt Gilbert. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 259 The pepill so wickit ar of feiris, The frutles erde all witnes beiris. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) John viii. f. cxxxij I am won that beare witnes off my sylfe, and my father that sent me beareth witnes off me. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. i. 68 O earth, beare witnes to this sound, And crowne what I professe with kinde euent If I speake true. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iv. 78 In veritie you did, my bones beares witnesse, That since haue felt the vigor of his rage. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iv. 91 God and the Rope-maker beare me witnesse, That I was sent for nothing but a rope. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 239 In seeking just occasion to provoke The Philistine..Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness . View more context for this quotation 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer iii. 56 I can bear witness to that. 1839 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 59 Her dress..bore witness to a far more improved taste. 1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond x To speak of heaven..and to bring it to bear witness to the lie in his mouth. 1842 Ld. Tennyson St. Simeon Stylites in Poems (new ed.) II. 59 And I, in truth (thou wilt bear witness here) Have all in all endured as much. 1876 E. Mellor Priesthood ii. 59 The striking witness which he [sc. Judas] bore to the innocence of the Lord. < as lemmas |
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