喜樂美語
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    Hearsay is something you have only heard other people say. You did not see it yourself, and you cannot be sure it is true. “It’s only hearsay” means treat it as talk passing from person to person, not as proof. Though actually, in a court of law the word gets sharper: hearsay is a report of what someone else said, and judges often will not let it in as evidence, because the person who first spoke is not there to be questioned. Outside court it is a slightly formal, newspaper kind of word. Friends more often say I heard that… or it’s just a .

    傳聞、道聽塗說（法律上則是「傳聞證據」）

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成From Middle English hyere-zigginge and here sey, from the phrase heren seien — to hear people say. Hear + say, written as one word now. German has an old twin, Hörensagen.

同家族的字

  • hearthe first piece: you heard it
  • saythe second piece: someone said it

原始詞典資料3 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。

hearsaynoun/ˈhɪəseɪ/

  • 1

    Information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated.

    • based on hearsay
    • The story turned out to be nothing but hearsay.
  • 2

    lawEvidence based on the reports of others, which is normally inadmissible because it was not made under oath, rather than on personal knowledge.

    • dismiss hearsay
    • The judge ruled the testimony as mere hearsay.
  • 3

    lawAn out-of-court statement offered in court to prove the truth of the matter asserted (or the in-court testimony which recites such a statement), which is normally inadmissible (because it is not subject to cross-examination) unless it falls under one of a number of exceptions.

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。