作证

The article is divided into five parts: Chapter 1. In this chapter the author discusses the history and development of the witness. It experiences the process from obscuration to civilization, from irrational to rational, which leads to the analysis of witness's concept in contemporary procedure law.

全文共分五章：第一章证人概述部分以历史考察的角度简要回顾了证人在诉讼中从野蛮到文明、从非理性到理性的演变过程，从而引出现代诉讼法律意义上证人概念的分析，以奠定证人制度研究的理论基础，理解作证主体的身份。

Give witness on behalf of sb.

为某人作证

For example, witness the testimony of Albert Rhys Williams, an astute commentator on the revolution, before the Senate Overman Committee:... it is probably true that under the soviet government industrial life will perhaps be much slower in development than under the usual capitalistic system.

例如，阿尔伯特·里斯·威廉姆斯——一个对革命评论的滑头——在参议院弗曼委员会前作证说，在社会主义政府领导下，工业的发展也许会比资本主义系统更慢。

I John, your brother and your partner in tribulation, and in the kingdom, and patience in Christ Jesus, was in the island, which is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus.

我若望，你们的弟兄，并在耶稣内与你们共患难，同王权和同忍耐的，为天主的话，并为给耶稣作证，曾到了一座名叫帕特摩的海岛上。

Dale Neumann who once studied to be a Pentecostal minister testified that he believed God would heal his daughter.

曾经学习成为教会牧师Dale作证时说，他相信上帝会拯救他的女儿。

In 2007, Buffett testified before the Senate and urged them to preserve the estate tax so as to avoid a plutocracy .

2007年，巴菲特作证参议院，并敦促它们维护遗产税，以避免富豪。

Police s appearing in court as witness is very important for the far-reaching judicial reform.

警察出庭作证对于当前中国正在如火如荼进行的司法改革意义重大。

I, Martin Luther, Doctor, of the Order of Monks at Wittenberg, desire to testify publicly that certain propositions against pontifical indulgences, as they call them, have been put forth by me.

一，马丁路德，医生，命令的僧人在维滕贝格，希望公开作证，某些主张对宗座indulgences ，因为他们给他们打电话，已经提出了我。

Although forbidding the impeachment of verdicts by inquiry into the jurors' mental processes, it deletes from the Supreme Court version the proscription against testimony "as to any matter or statement occurring during the course of the jury's deliberations."

虽然众议院通过的此项规则也禁止通过调查陪审员的思想过程来指控陪审团的裁定，但它删除了最高法院法案版本中的禁止性条款，即有关禁止"就陪审团评议期间发生的任何事项或陈述"作证的条款。

China witnesses refuse to testify to the idea stems from the Confucian doctrine, calling it a "kiss of the first Punic" principle.

我国证人拒绝作证权源于儒家学说的主张，称之为"亲亲得相首匿"原则。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。