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单词 corroborate
释义
corroborate
(kərɒbəreɪt )
Word forms: corroborates , corroborating , corroborated
verb
To corroborate something that has been said or reported means to provide evidence or information that supports it. [formal]
I had access to a wide range of documents which corroborated the story. [VERB noun]
Alice corroborated what Blair had said. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: support, establish, confirm, document  
corroboration (kərɒbərʃən ) uncountable noun
He needed independent corroboration of his version of the accident. [+ of]
Synonyms: support, establishment, confirmation, endorsement  
Collocations:
corroborate a claim
Other eyewitnesses, however, did not corroborate that claim.
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Some reports corroborate this claim, either from police reports, or by an authoritative statement from a senior cleric.
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She was 'shocked' by his behaviour and immediately went to her boss, who in evidence corroborated her claim.
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They may also lie about how many passengers were with them, or produce conveniently placed witnesses to corroborate their claims.
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Such flight patterns might corroborate the claims of government officials that prisoners are grouped into different classes being deposited in different locations.
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corroborate a report
In the third case, the video recording failed to corroborate the report.
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Police say that they have interviewed up to ten people who corroborate the reported sequence of events.
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Analysis, in turn, involves finding independent means of corroborating the reports.
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corroborate a story
News reports from the time do not corroborate the story.
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Forgetting, or being otherwise unable to produce, a key fact, the missing link necessary to corroborate their story.
Christianity Today
You might think him disingenuous were it not for the fact that there are others on hand to corroborate his story.
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Through oral histories, we trace their memories along with archival materials to corroborate their stories.
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It says it has corroborated his story by speaking to other eyewitnesses.
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corroborating evidence
They insisted that 'corroborating evidence' was needed and that no 'intelligence reliability could be placed on the results'.
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He questioned why it had taken so long to clear him when there was 'no corroborating evidence whatsoever'.
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But they are still trying to find corroborating evidence.
The Sun
Either it picks a player who readers would find completely absurd, or it selects the same player as everyone else, making it useful as corroborating evidence but otherwise unexciting.
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Both provide corroborating evidence for the fossil's age.
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Translations:
Chinese: 证实
Japanese: 確証する
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