動詞：顯示、證明
把名詞的「證據」當動作用：不是「那個證據」，而是「某事本身顯示出…」。
show clearly to be true · verb · B2
To show clearly that something is real or true.
證明、顯示
核心畫面
You can picture 'evidence' as something visible that points at the truth — a fact, mark, or sign that makes you say 'see, this is really so.' Whether it's a clue in everyday life, a document in court, or the verb 'this proves it,' the picture is the same: something out in the open that shows what is true.
可以想成「evidence」是一個「看得見、能指向真相」的東西——一個事實、痕跡或跡象，讓你說「你看，這是真的」。它…更多收起
可以想成「evidence」是一個「看得見、能指向真相」的東西——一個事實、痕跡或跡象，讓你說「你看，這是真的」。它的字根本身就帶有「看得見」的意思。不管是生活裡的線索、法庭上的證物，還是動詞的「這件事顯示了…」，畫面都一樣：擺在眼前、用來指出什麼是真的那個東西。From the word’s history
From Latin 'evidentia' (obviousness), built on 'videre' = to see — so the root idea is something plainly seen, which underlies the modern core of a visible fact that shows the truth.
來自拉丁文 evidentia（明顯），底層是 videre「看」——所以字根的核心比較像「明明白白被看見的東西」，這正好對應現代的核心畫面：擺在眼前、用來顯示真相的事實或跡象。
Oxford English Dictionary / etymonline (evident < Latin videre 'to see')
From the picture
Also in this word
facts that show something is true · noun · B2
Facts or signs that clearly show that something is real or true.
證據
testimony given in court · noun · B2
Information given in a court to show whether someone did something wrong or not.
證詞、證物
原始詞典資料5 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。
evidencenoun/ˈɛv.ɪ.dəns/
- 1
Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
- There is no demonstrative evidence that anyone was here earlier.
- We have enough cold hard evidence in that presentation which will make a world of pain for our parasitic friends at Antarctica.
- 2
lawAnything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
- For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.
- 3
One who bears witness.
- infamous and perjured evidences
- He recapitulated the Sybil’s story word by word, with the air of a man who is cross-examining an evidence, and trying to make him contradict himself.
- 4
A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.
evidenceverb/ˈɛv.ɪ.dəns/
- 1
To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
- She was furious, as evidenced by her slamming the door.
- That he was a great locomotive engineer, it would be foolish to deny or even to qualify; that he was also extremely pig-headed is fairly evidenced by David Joy, who in his 'Diaries' said that Stroudley always wanted his way 'to the last nut and bolt.'
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。