| 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 | 1 [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. [ [Also V n] [FORMAL 正式]
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