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Corroborative describes information that supports or helps to prove someone else’s statement, idea, or result. Corroborative evidence is the extra backing: another witness, a document, a recording, a second test. The word is formal and a little old-fashioned in tone; many writers now just say supporting evidence. You will still meet it in law and in careful academic prose. It is an adjective, so it sits in front of a noun (corroborative testimony, corroborative findings). Though actually, English also has a rare noun use for a thing that corroborates, but students can ignore that — the adjective is the one you will see. It has nothing to do with collaborative, which is about working as a team.
佐證的;起證實作用的
組成From corroborate + -ive (“having that role or quality”).
同家族的字
- corroboratethe verb this adjective is built from
- corroborationthe noun for the backing itself
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
corroborativeadj
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Serving to corroborate
- Carrie Junkin, who lived with Appleby from the summer of 1977 through April 1978, and who was involved in numerous trips to New York to pick up leather men, is not under indictment for his participation in any of these activities. Nor was he even called as a corroborative witness by the state.
corroborativenoun
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dateda medical tonic; a corroborant
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。