attests

英 [əˈtests]

美 [əˈtests]

v.  证实; 是…的证据; 作证，证明(如在法庭上)
attest的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 说明，表示，证明（某事属实）
  Toattestsomething orattest tosomething means to say, show, or prove that it is true.
  1. Police records attest to his long history of violence...
     警方记录证明他有长期从事暴力活动的前科。
  2. I can personally attest that the cold and flu season is here...
     感冒和流感季节来了，对此我有切身体会。
  3. His beautifully illustrated book well attested his love of the university.
     他那本带有精美插图的书见证了他对大学的热爱。

双语例句

• From the outset, reggae was political, as the work of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh clearly attests.
  从一开始，它做为鲍勃·马利和“嚎啕者”乐队证明雷吉是政治的特定工作。
• Their new emphasis on "harmonious" development, designed to narrow disparities and promote more sustainable development, attests to their efforts to tackle them.
  他们新近强调的“和谐”发展，就是以缩小差距、促进可持续发展为目标，这证明了他们为解决问题所做的努力。
• The skill with which he has executed the work attests to the thorough training he received.
  他做这件工作如此熟练，证明受过充分的训练。
• The testimony of his contemporaries attests to this, and certainly the known facts of his life confirm his leanings toward the metaphysical and the mystical.
  和他同时代的人公认他对玄学和神秘主义的偏爱，他的一生也充分证实了这一点。
• Clever as well as confident, his easy public manner attests to the inner certainty. He is not overly fussed about being liked.
  在公众场合，他表现得既头脑灵敏又自信满满，这证明了他内心的笃定。对于人们的爱戴，他也没有过于大惊小怪。
• As the issue of standardized test use attests, college admissions is a difficult and complex process.
  随着标准化考试的使用问题证明，大学入学是一项艰巨而复杂的过程。
• The quip that Mrs Merkel is the only politician who can stop Barack Obama being re-elected attests both to her power and to frustration over how she wields it.
  有一种讽刺的说法，说默克尔是唯一可以阻止奥巴马再次当选的政治家。这一说法表明，她拥有超级大的权力，也证实了人们对她没有善用权力的失望。
• This high success rate attests to the massive storage ability of long-term memory.
  如此高的成功率应证了长期记忆的巨大存储能力。
• As the number of my French-speaking acquaintances from Africa, Canada, Switzerland, Belgium and Vietnam attests, French is by no means a negligible competitor of English internationally.
  正如我结识的来自非洲、加拿大、瑞士、比利时及越南的说法语的朋友数量之多所证明的，在国际上法语决不是英语的微不足道的对手。
• The relationship attests to a commonly held view of Americans familiar with the country that despite their nations 'diverging histories and political systems, the two peoples have much in common.
  这折射出熟悉中国的美国人普遍持有的一种观点：尽管两国历史不同、政治体制各异，但两国人民有着许多共同点。