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Vindicate Vindicated Report Vindication 英 Vɪndɪkeɪt] 美 Vɪndɪkeɪt V.证明无辜;证明

英语单词 vindicate
英美音标 英 ['vɪndɪkeɪt] 美 ['vɪndɪkeɪt]
中文释义 v.证明无辜;证明 ... 正确;维护(权利等);<废>报仇
英语例句 (1) I consider that I've been completely vindicated.
(2) The report of the committee vindicated him.
(3) The report fully vindicated the unions.
(4) He tried hard to vindicate his honor.
中文例句 (1) 我认为已经证实了我完全无辜。
(2) 委员会的报告说明他是清白的。
(3) 这份报告充分说明工会是正确的。
(4) 他拼命维护自己的名誉。
vocabulary简明 Vindicate means to justify, prove, or reinforce an idea — or to absolve from guilt. If your family thinks you hogged the last piece of pie on Thanksgiving, you'll be vindicated when your younger brother fesses up.
vocabulary扩展 Vindicate derives from the Latin vindicatus, which is the past tense of vindicare, meaning "lay claim to" or "avenge." When a physicist proves a theory that his colleagues derided, he vindicates it. When a lawyer clears her client's name in a trial, she vindicates him. Machiavelli argued that the results he got vindicated his tactics — in other words, the ends justified the means.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]证实;证明…正确;证明…无辜 If a person or their decisions, actions, or ideas are vindicated, they are proved to be correct, after people have said that they were wrong.
  [be V-ed]
  [Also V n]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • The director said he had been vindicated by the experts' report...

    主任说专家们的报告证明了他是正确的。

  • Ministers and officials are confident their decision will be vindicated.

    部长们和官员们相信他们的决定会被证明是正确的。

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  • He called the success a vindication of his party's free-market economic policy.

    他认为这次成功证明了他的政党所实行的自由市场经济政策是正确的。

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