喜樂美語

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')

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同家族的字

過去式 evidenced過去分詞 evidenced-ing evidencing三單 evidences

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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。

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.'

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。