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/ˈtestɪfaɪ/
To testify means to say something out loud in a place like a court, saying that it is true. Usually you do this because you saw something happen, or you know something important, and someone in power (like a judge) needs to hear it. People also use it in a softer way outside of court — 'I can testify to how hard she works' means 'I can say, from what I've seen, that this is true.'
作證；（口語）證明
過去式 testified過去分詞 testified-ing testifying三單 testifies
組成test + ify. The old root 'test-' goes back to a Latin word for a witness, and '-ify' means 'to make happen' or 'to do.' So testify was built to mean 'to act as a witness.'
同家族的字
- testimonyshares the same old root meaning 'witness'
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。
testifyverb/ˈtɛstɪfaɪ/
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To make a declaration, or give evidence, under oath.
- One witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
- Michael Jackson probably died after he rapidly injected himself with a dose of the surgical anesthetic propofol on top of a large dose of sedatives he swallowed when Dr. Conrad Murray was away, the defense’s propofol expert testified Friday.
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To make a statement based on personal knowledge or faith.
- We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
- [T]he pleaſures of ſenſe have no reliſh vvhere thou [Jesus] irradiateſt and teſtifieſt vvith our conſcience, that vve are the children of God, and have done thy vvill ſincerely, […]
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To be evidence of.
- Paradoxically, the sharp and unambiguous formulas in which Lenin called for the use of terror and denied the possibility of democracy and freedom testified to the fact that freedom had not yet been completely eradicated.
- "Iberian-Sardinian" substrate features have been posited time and time again. These have usually been explained as testifying to a migration from the Iberian Peninsula to Sardinia in prehistoric times.
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。