| 单词 | eyewitness testimony |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseyewitness testimony General attributive, esp. in the sense ‘as given by an eyewitness’, as eyewitness account, eyewitness report, eyewitness testimony, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [adjective] > of eyewitness eye-set1632 autoptical1649 autoptic1808 eyewitness1833 1833 C. MacFarlane Lives & Exploits Banditti & Robbers II. 9 They have not been so fortunate as the continental freebooters in having good narrators of their exploits, nor have I been so lucky as to find one good eyewitness account of them. 1875 S. T. Gibson Relig. & Sci. ii. v. 268 The testimony of the fourth Gospel, if its genuineness were beyond doubt, would certainly be eye-witness testimony. 1922 C. E. Montague Disenchantment vii. 95 Eked out with ‘Eye-Witness’ stuff—official ‘word-painting’ by some Regular Officer. 1938 E. Waugh Scoop i. v. 88 An eye-witness story of the sinking of the Lusitania. 1947 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 27 June 1 (headline) Flying saucer mystery deepens as eyewitness descriptions increase. 1988 Undercurrent Sept. 12 Next issue Undercurrent will bring you an eye-witness report from a correspondent who was stranded in one of the storm-struck areas. 1995 C. R. Hollin Contemp. Psychol. (new ed.) xiii. 251 The accuracy of eyewitness recall and recognition. 2004 Independent 3 Mar. 10/3 A moving eyewitness account of the assassination of Robert Kennedy. < as lemmas |
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