[每日] corroborate (v) 證實
Word of the Day (Monday October 27, 2008)
corroborate \kuh-ROB-uh-rayt\, transitive verb:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/5452K
To strengthen or make more certain with other evidence.
Whenever I can, I interview family and friends extensively both
to corroborate the history given me by the defendant and to gain
insight into his behavior and personality.
-- Barbara R. Kirwin, Ph.D., The Mad, the Bad, and the Innocent:
The Criminal Mind on Trial
He said that when the jurors confronted discrepancies in any of
the prosecution witnesses' descriptions, they used the testimony
of other prosecution witnesses to corroborate the chronology.
-- "Most Jurors Thought Schwarz Aided Attack, Foreman Says", New
York Times, August 2, 2002
As we have no public notoriety, no concurrent testimony, no
records to support and corroborate what we deliver, it becomes us
to keep within the limits not only of possibility, but of
probability too.
-- Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones
Corroborate is from Latin corroboratus, past participle of the verb
corroborare, "to strengthen," from com-, "with" + roborare, "to
strengthen," and is related to robust.
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