喜樂美語

You can picture prove as putting something to the test and watching it come through: you don't just claim it's true — you bring facts, or let time pass, and the thing shows itself to really be so. The Latin root probare means 'to test, to try, to find good'. Hold that 'test it and let it show its true self' image, and even the bread rising and the legal sense fall out of it: each is something being put to the test and turning out to be what it should be.

可以把 prove 想成「把一件事拿去考驗、然後看它過關」：你不是只用嘴說它是真的，而是拿出事實、或讓時間走一段，讓它自己顯現出「確實如此」。拉丁字根 probare 就是「試驗、測試、驗明為好」。握住這個「拿去試、讓它顯出真面目」的畫面，連麵團發酵與法律認證都從這裡長出來：都是某個東西被拿去考驗、結果證明它本該是的樣子。

From the word’s history

Prove comes from Latin probare 'to test, try, examine, judge as good' (also the root of probe and probation). The modern senses keep that testing thread: a claim is tested against facts, a person tests himself, dough is tested by rising, a will is officially tested for validity.

prove 來自拉丁文 probare，意思是「測試、試驗、審視、評為好」（也是 probe 探針、probation 試用期的字根）。現代的各個意思都保留了「受考驗」這條線：主張被事實檢驗、人考驗自己、麵團用膨起來受檢驗、遺囑被正式檢驗是否有效。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), s.v. 'prove' (Latin probare 'to test, prove worthy')

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過去式 proved過去分詞 proved / proven-ing proving三單 proves

意思相近

showshow yourselfturn outrisevalidatedemonstratedemonstrate your worthbecomeauthenticateconfirmshow yourself to beend up+3

意思相反

disprove

原始詞典資料11 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。

proveverb詞源 1/ˈpɹuːv/

  • 1

    To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify.

    • [VV]e are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already published of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs.
    • Mr. H …, whom no distinctions of that sort seemed to disturb, scarce gave himself or me breathing time from the last encounter, but, as if he had task'd himself to prove that the appearances of his vigour were not signs hung out in vain, in a few minutes he was in a condition for renewing the onset
  • 2

    To turn out; to manifest.

    • It proved to be a cold day.
  • 3

    To turn out to be.

    • Have an exit strategy should your calculations prove incorrect.
    • But ſhall I prooue a traitor to my King?
  • 4

    To put to the test, to make trial of.

    • They took the experimental car to the proving-grounds.
    • The exception proves the rule.
  • 5

    To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.

    • to prove a will
  • 6

    archaicTo experience.

    • Where she, captived long, great woes did prove.
  • 7

    datedmediaprintingpublishingTo take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.

    • to prove a page
  • 8

    homeopathymedicinesciencesTo determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.

provenoun詞源 1/ˈpɹuːv/

  • 1

    bakingcookingfoodThe process of dough proofing.

    • You may also need to think about what the prove is doing to the loaf of bread — it is warming the dough and making it moist, allowing it to rise […]

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