🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

目击者证词

Pronunciation / Transliteration: mùjī zhě zhèngcí

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Eyewitness Account/ˈaɪˌwɪt.nəs əˈkaʊnt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"目击者证词对案件调查至关重要。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A report or statement made by someone who has personally seen an event or incident.

    "The eyewitness account provided crucial details about the robbery."
  2. 2

    A narrative description of an event as recounted by an observer.

    "Her eyewitness account of the accident helped the police with their investigation."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'eyewitness' originates from the combination of 'eye' and 'witness', with 'eye' deriving from Old English 'ēage', and 'witness' from Old English 'witan', meaning to know or to see. 'Account' comes from the Latin 'computare', meaning to calculate or to count, evolving to mean a narrative or report in Middle English.

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