0 to show something or to say or prove that something is true -- 表明；證明；證實
Thousands of people came out onto the streets to attest their support for the democratic opposition party. 數以千計的人走到街上，聲援主張民主的反對黨。
The number of old German cars still on the road attests (to) the excellence of their manufacture. 在馬路上仍可以看到相當數量的舊款德國車，這表明其製造工藝十分精良。
As his career attests, he is a world-class tennis player. 他是世界一流的網球選手，其職業生涯便是最好例證。
specialized The will needs to be attested (= officially marked to show that the signature of the person who made the will is correct) by three witnesses. 此遺囑需要有三個證人聯署證明。
Cases of languages in contact that have replaced this class of items on a wholesale basis are widely attested.
This account might receive further support if the verbs actually attested with habitual do tended to have action nouns based on them.
Many of the patterns visible in prehistoric material either attest structures or else are the cumulative product of countless repetitive and routinised actions.
There should be some plausible linguistic or extralinguistic explanation for the mismatch between the predicted and attested types.
As such, it would tend to be first attested in writing in the more oral and less formal genres.
Both of these patterns are attested in real languages.
These perceptual assimilations, moreover, are attested even in highly proficient bilinguals, and they resist specific training.
That this is not an uncommon situation is attested to by the experience of the first author in a commercial setting.!
