prove
- vt. 证明;检验;显示
- vi. 证明是
词态变化
中文词源
来自拉丁语probare,检验,证明,测试,来自pro-,向前,-be,成为,是,词源同be.
英英释意
- 1. be shown or be found to be;
- "She proved to be right"
- "The medicine turned out to save her life"
- "She turned up HIV positive"
- 2. establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment;
- "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"
- "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
- 3. provide evidence for;
- "The blood test showed that he was the father"
- "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"
- 4. prove formally; demonstrate by a mathematical, formal proof
- 5. put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;
- "This approach has been tried with good results"
- "Test this recipe"
- 6. increase in volume;
- "the dough rose slowly in the warm room"
- 7. cause to puff up with a leaven;
- "unleavened bread"
- 8. take a trial impression of
- 9. obtain probate of;
- "prove a will"
英文词源
- prove
- prove: [12] The ultimate source of prove was Latin probus ‘good’. This went back (like the related Sanskrit prabhu- ‘eminent, mighty’) to a prehistoric Indo-European compound *probhwo- ‘being in front’, hence ‘excelling’ (*promeant ‘in front’, and *bhwo- was the ancestor of English be). From it was derived the verb probāre ‘test, approve, prove’, which has given English approve, probable, probe, proof, reprobate, reprove, and of course prove, acquired via Old French prover. Another Latin derivative of probus was probitās ‘honesty’, from which English gets probity [16].
=> approve, probable, probe, proof, reprobate - prove (v.)
- late 12c., pruven, proven "to try, test; evaluate; demonstrate," from Old French prover, pruver "show; convince; put to the test" (11c., Modern French prouver), from Latin probare "to make good; esteem, represent as good; make credible, show, demonstrate; test, inspect; judge by trial" (source also of Spanish probar, Italian probare), from probus "worthy, good, upright, virtuous," from PIE *pro-bhwo- "being in front," from *pro-, extended form of root *per- (1) "forward, through" (see per), + root *bhu- "to be" (cognates: Latin fui "I have been," futurus "about to be;" Old English beon "to be;" see be). Related: Proved; proven; proving.
同义词辨析
prove, certify, demonstrate, establish, testify
这些动词均含有"证明,证实"之意。
prove: 普通用词,指通过某种手段或方式提供证据以证实或证明某事物真实与否,某结论正确与否等情况。
certify: 较正式用词,多指有签字盖章的、合符法律程序的书面证明。
demonstrate: 指通过推理、辩论、实验或以实例来证明事物的正确与否。常用于理论、学说、定律等的证明上。
establish: 指证实事实或理论的真实性与正确性,使其能长期存在或为人们所接受。
testify: 较正式用词,既指出庭作证,提供证据,又指为某人或某事的是否真实提供证据或证明。
考试真题
- Whether residents felt involved in the decision to move and how long they had lived there also proved significant.
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- Though it helps for children to investigate care facilities, involving their parents in the decision-making process may prove very important.
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- Pre-K advocates insist it is proven and will succeed if integrated with the rest of the child's schooling.
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- Personality characteristics that prove advantageous actually vary with times.
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- Increasing water shortages prove to be the biggest obstacle to boosting the world's grain production.
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- The practice of taxing alcohol and tobacco has proved both popular and profitable.
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- It has proved to be key to McDonald's business success.
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- For instance, Benjamin Franklin used a kite to prove that lightning is electricity.
出自-2015年12月听力原文
- They prove to be a good alternative to petroleum.
出自-2014年6月阅读原文
- It proves profitable to both sides.
出自-2014年6月阅读原文
- The crisis will prove hugely disruptive (破坏性的), however.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
- In a New York Times article, Sam Boakye – the only black student on his freshman year floor -said that "if you're surrounded by whites, you have something to prove.
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- Meditation may prove to be a good form of psychotherapy.
出自-2010年6月阅读原文
- They wanted to prove they were as capable as boys.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
- Wearing the wrong glasses, however, can prove harmful.
出自-2011年6月听力原文
- There are many commonly held beliefs about eye glasses and eyesight that are not proven facts.
出自-2011年6月听力原文
- He has proved to be a better reader than the woman.
出自-2010年6月听力原文
- He wanted to "set the standard for beauty in classical and mode cooling, and prove to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world", as he wrote in his papers.
2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
- Instead, topping the list of reasons, about four-in-ten Americans point to a double standard for women seeking to climb to the highest levels of either politics or business, where they have to do more than their male counterparts to prove themselves.
2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
- More research is needed to prove that breakfast is related to weight loss or food intake.
2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
- The experiment was a grand success and Talleyrand's association with French nobility would prove a profitable connection for Careme.
2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
- The lessons prove valuable outside the classroom as well.
2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
- What the designers of American sportswear proved was that fashion is a genuine design art, answering to the demanding needs of service.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
- Pricing carbon proves the most economical way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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- Higher fossil fuel prices prove to be conducive to innovation and application of cleaner technologyIf fossil fuel prices remain low for a long time, it may lead to higher emissions of greenhouse gases.
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- That would be true only if you believed that patients should have an unrestrained right to treatments proven to be inferior.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
- Sustainable management of ecosystems will prove rewarding in the long run.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
- Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in defensive medicine by performing tests and treatments primarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sued.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
- It proves the advantage of TV advertising.
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- It is difficult to find solid evidence to prove environmental friendliness generates more profits than exploiting the natural environment.
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- Congress needs to find the courage to allow Medicare to pay preferentially for treatments proven to be superior.
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- While yoga and meditation ( ' , 静思 ) are scientifically proven to reduce stress levels, these programs do little to target the root causes of burnout and disengagement.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- It will prove to be a profitable business.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- But Google's book-scanning project is proving controversial.
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- It is these commercial provisions that are proving the settlement's most controversial aspect
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- White's experience is what many psychologists had expected - that Obama would prove to be a powerful role model for African Americans.
出自-2010年6月阅读原文
- We suspect they felt inspired and energised by his victory, so the stereotype threat wouldn't prove a distraction," says Friedman
出自-2010年6月阅读原文
- This experiment certainly does not definitely prove that girls start to reason before boys, but it provides a clue that scientists would like to study more carefully.
出自-2012年12月听力原文
- The change cut their expenditures in half, but the new living arrangement proved too challenging.
出自-2012年12月听力原文
- To prove that she could earn her living as a gardener.
出自-2011年6月听力原文
- To prove that she was really irritated with her husband
出自-2011年6月听力原文
- Hope has proven a powerful predictor of outcome in every study we've done so far,'said Doctor Charles R. Snyder, a psychologist, who has devised a scale to assess how much hope a person has.
出自-2010年12月听力原文
- After becoming president of Purdue University in 2013, mitch Daniels asked the faculty to prove that their students have actually achieved one of higher education's most important goals: critical thinking skills.
2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
- Even the Harvard study did not prove a direct correlation but noted strong associations between exposure and risk of behavioral issues.
2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
- In response to past critics, Twenge and her co-researchers stress they are not trying to prove that the use of digital devices reduces young people's well-being.
2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
- Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in "defensive medicine" by performing tests and treatments primarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sue
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
- This does not prove causality, but is consistent with it.
2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
- And unplanned human activities have proved the idea of top-down control by top predators to be true.
2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
- But he argued that this did not prove parental involvement was the root cause of that success.
2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
- But here, too, Anderson notes that no studies have proved it.
2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
- But Shelly-Ann was to prove that she was anything but a one-hit wonder.
2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- Experience proved that the rule works.
2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- For football and basketball, adding talented players to a team proves a good method, but only up to the point where 70% of the players are top talent; above that level, the team's performance begins to decline.
2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文
- Get the technology that has proven to help the most demanding customers.
2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
- Her father Peter, 44, wantS her to give up school to model full-time, but Sarah, who has taken part in shows along with top models wants to prove that she has brains as well as beauty she is determined to carry on with her education.
2017年高考英语全国卷3 语法填空 原文
- However, the railway quickly proved to be a great success and within six months, more than 25, 000 people were using it every day.
2017年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文
- I want to prove that I can teach myself a respectful profession, without going to college, and be just as good as, if not better than, my competitors.
2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
- I woke up sweating and nervous, but ready to prove something to myself.
2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
- In order to stay she's had to prove her language skills by taking a test which requires her to write a postcard to an imaginary friend.
2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
- It had white-painted tunnels and bright red carriages, and proved extremely popular with the public.
2017年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文
- It just proves there are honest guys out there.
2018年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文
- Lead poisonous has proved more difficult to deal with.
2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
- The instrumental support of taking on a fitness journey with others proves more effective than going to the gym alone.
2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文
- Not a single day has been wasted, though I can never tell when knowing the population of Nepal might prove useful.
2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
- Peter mcnaught, operations director at London underground, said: "It may not seem right that you can go quicker by standing still, but our experiments at holborn have proved that it can be true."
2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- Researchers have discovered that "night milk" contains more melatonin, which has been proven to help people feel sleepy and reduce anxiety.
2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- Scientists have advanced many theories about why human beings cry tears, none of which has been proved.
2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 单项选择 原文
- The Adelmans' programme proves biased as the roles of characters are maximized.
2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项
- Their efforts have been proven fruitful.
2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
- We regarded this as a chance to prove the human spirit.
2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文
- If people in the network just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant,for example from the initial influential prove resistant,for example the cascade of change won’t propagate very far or affect many people.
出自-2010年考研阅读原文
- All in all, this clearly seems to be a market in which big retailers could profitably apply their gigantic scale, existing infrastructure, and proven skills in the management of product ranges, logistics, and marketing intelligence.
出自-2010年考研阅读原文
- David Graddol concludes that monoglot English graduates face a bleak economic future as qualified multilingual youngsters from other countries are proving to have a competitive advantage over their British counterparts in global companies and organizations.
出自-2017年考研翻译原文
- After all, it was rumored that smoking caused cancer for years before the evidence was found to prove a connection.
2020年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
- France's planned tax is a clear warning: Unless a broad consensus can be reached on reforming the international tax system, other nations are likely to follow suit, and American companies will face a cascade of different taxes from dozens of nations that
2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
- If people in the network just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant, for example, the cascade of change won't propagate very far or affect many people.
2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
词组搭配
prove out
To turn out well; succeed.
成功:结果很好;成功
not proven
(Scots Law)a verdict that there is insufficient evidence to establish guilt or innocence
(苏格兰律)证据不足
实用场景例句
- They hope this new evidence will prove her innocence.
- 他们希望这一新证据能证明她无罪。
牛津词典
- ‘I know you're lying. ’ ‘Prove it! ’
- “我知道你在撒谎。”“拿出证据来!”
牛津词典
- Just give me a chance and I'll prove it to you.
- 只要给我个机会,我会证明给你看。
牛津词典
- He felt he needed to prove his point (= show other people that he was right) .
- 他觉得有必要证明自己的想法是对的。
牛津词典
- Are you just doing this to prove a point ?
- 你这么做就是为证明自己对吗?
牛津词典
- What are you trying to prove ?
- 你想证明什么?
牛津词典
- I certainly don't have anything to prove ─my record speaks for itself.
- 我当然不用证明什么——我的纪录就可说明一切。
牛津词典
- This proves (that) I was right.
- 这证明我是对的。
牛津词典
- She was determined to prove everyone wrong.
- 她决心证明大家都错了。
牛津词典
- In this country, you are innocent until proved guilty.
- 在这个国家,一个人在被证实有罪之前,就是清白的。
牛津词典
- This just proves what I have been saying for some time.
- 这恰好证实了我长久以来所说的。
牛津词典
- Can it be proved that he did commit these offences?
- 能证明他确实犯了这些罪吗?
牛津词典
- The opposition proved too strong for him.
- 这个对手过于强劲,使得他难以招架。
牛津词典
- Shares in the industry proved a poor investment.
- 事实证明投资这个行业的股票是一个失败。
牛津词典
- The promotion proved to be a turning point in his career.
- 这次提升最后证明是他职业生涯的一个转折点。
牛津词典
- He constantly feels he has to prove himself to others.
- 他时常觉得自己必须向人一展身手。
牛津词典
- He proved himself determined to succeed.
- 他向人证明了自己不达目的不罢休。
牛津词典
- We have been accused of exaggerating before, but unfortunately all our reports proved to be true...
- 以前一直有人指责我们夸大事实,但遗憾的是,我们所有的报道都证明是真实的。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- In the past this process of transition has often proven difficult.
- 过去这一过渡过程常常很艰难。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- You brought this charge. You prove it!...
- 你提出了这项控告。你拿出证据来!
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The results prove that regulation of the salmon farming industry is inadequate.
- 结果证明对鲑鱼饲养行业的管理不够完善。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Margaret proved herself to be a good mother...
- 玛格丽特证明了自己是个好妈妈。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- As a composer he proved himself adept at large dramatic forms...
- 身为作曲家的他证明了自己在创作大型戏剧方面驾轻就熟。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- They made a 3,000 mile detour simply to prove a point.
- 他们绕行3,000英里只是为了证明自己能够做到。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- KOBE: I think after Game 2 was it.
- 科比: 我认为在G2时才算结束.
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