3[intransitiveI]PROTEST to protest or support something in public with a lot of other people 游行,示威
Supporters demonstrated outside the courtroom during the trial.
审判期间,支持者们在法庭外示威。
demonstrate against
What are they demonstrating against?
他们在示威抗议什么?
4[transitiveT]PROVE to show that you have a particular ability, quality, or feeling 展示,表露出〔某种能力、品质或感情〕
He has demonstrated an ability to meet deadlines.
他展示了如期完成任务的能力。
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demonstrate• But leadership, like art, can be demonstrated.• If you still don't understand, Marcia will be happy to demonstrate.• The studies demonstrate a clear link between smoking and heartdisease.• More than a decade of performance and change has demonstrated a remarkably consistent, if counterintuitive, phenomenon.• Thousands of workers and students demonstrated against US involvement in the war.• His commitment to the company is demonstrated by his work on the project.• That this substance is divine and intelligent is demonstrated by the orderliness of the universe.• Aerobicsinstructors should always demonstrate each new movement first.• Brenda wanted to demonstrate her sympathy in a practical way.• A long-rangeeffort from Eyjolfur Sverrisson was parried by Lukic and Walter demonstrated his predatoryinstincts ruthlessly inside the box.• He will also have demonstrated his willingness to leave a marriage.• Here are some examples that demonstrate how badly some students write their resumés.• A trainer came in to demonstrate how the new computer system worked.• Try to round off your answer by demonstrating how your old job has prepared you to do the job you are applying for.• Sloan demonstratedimpressive leadership in building a company that took employees' needs into account.• Thousands of people demonstratedoutside the parliament building last night.• Joe and Helyne Victor have also demonstrated parent power in their own family and to this entire business.• The President is anxious to demonstrate that he has a strong foreignpolicy.• I'm afraid this whole episodedemonstrates that we have become less compassionate as a society.• The ski instructor began by demonstrating the correct way to turn.• The new law was intended to demonstrate the government's concern for the lowest paid workers.• Or perhaps the don't knows didn't know where to demonstrate their indecision.• You've got to be able to demonstrate to people that the union can help in these cases.• The Soviets had demonstrated unsuspected scientific and engineeringskills.• The assessmentcenter gives each applicant the opportunity to demonstrate whether they are suited to the work.
demonstrate that• Study 1 demonstrated thatdrivers were substantially more likely to recall those situations in which they had experienced risk.• The Harlows have demonstrated that, in monkeys, these effects are slightly diminished rather than heightened by materialinfluence.• It demonstrates that in the post-Cold War world, middle powers can avail themselves of new power to build coalitions.• It demonstrated that Payne was no longer a novice.• Scientific evidencedemonstrates that smoking can cause birthdefects.• In addition these dissociation profiles appear to demonstrate that the enhanced DNase I cleavagedisappears more slowly than the actualfootprint.• Only when Brearley demonstrated that the problem could be solved by carefully controlled heattreatment did the stainless-steel knife become widely used.• Drescher, however, has demonstrated that there were at least twenty-seven public meetings for anti-slave tradepetitioning in 1788.• In the United States it has been clearly demonstrated that they do.
1show表明ADVERB | PREPOSITIONADVERB➤amply, beyond doubt, clearly, conclusively, convincingly, effectively, powerfully, successfully, well充分/毫無疑問地/清楚地/確鑿地/令人信服地/有效地/有力地/成功地/很好地表明◇The study demonstrates beyond doubt the effectiveness of the new drug.研究毫無疑問地證明了這種新藥的效力。➤consistently, repeatedly始終/再三表明▸➤adequately足以證明▸➤further進一步證明▸➤easily不費力地表明▸➤elegantly, neatly (especially BrE) 精確地/簡潔地表明▸➤empirically, experimentally憑實際經驗/通過實驗證明▸➤directly直接表明▸➤publicly公開表明▸➤graphically, vividly形象地/生動地表明◇This tragedy graphically demonstrates the dangers of extreme sports.這個悲劇活生生地表明了極限運動的危險。PREPOSITION➤to向⋯證明◇The President must demonstrate to the country that he is really in control.總統必須向全國證明一切確實在他的掌控之下。demonstrate
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2protest抗議ADVERB | PREPOSITIONADVERB➤peacefully和平示威PREPOSITION➤against示威反對⋯◇Campaigners were demonstrating against the slaughter of dolphins.活動人士示威抗議宰殺海豚。➤for為⋯示威◇Their objective was to demonstrate peacefully for civil rights.他們的目標是為公民權利而進行和平示威。