Demonstrate can be pictured as putting the thing where people can see it for themselves. That is what separates it from say: saying asks you to take my word for it, while demonstrating places the evidence, the action, or the crowd right in front of you and lets you draw your own conclusion. Proving a claim with figures, showing how the machine works, marching in the street so the numbers are visible — all the same move: not telling you, showing you.
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
demonstrateverb/ˈdɛm.ənˌstɹeɪt/
- 1
To show how to use (something).
- Can you demonstrate the new tools for us?
- In this tape, a velvet-voiced narrator provides a stroke-by-stroke guide to massaging your partner. As she speaks, comely nude couples demonstrate.
- 2
To show the steps taken to create a logical argument or equation.
- 3
To participate in or organize a demonstration.
- Those people outside are demonstrating against the election results.
- 4
To show, display, or present; to prove or make evident
- The debate was not long on policy, as questions about the Affordable Care Act and the war in Syria demonstrated.
- "What we are trying to demonstrate is that freight lines at lower speeds can be electrified much more cheaply. […]"
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。