prove的意思|prove的解释-里氏词典

Prove \Prove\, v. i.
1. To make trial; to essay.

2. To be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out
to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves
false. ``The case proves mortal.'' --Arbuthnot.

So life a winter's morn may prove. --Keble.

3. To succeed; to turn out as expected. [Obs.] ``The
experiment proved not.'' --Bacon.

Prove \Prove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Proved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Proving}.] [OE. prover, F. prouver, fr. L. probare to try,
approve, prove, fr. probus good, proper. Cf. {Probable},
{Proof}, {Probe}.]
1. To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or
standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder
or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a
standard measure.

Thou hast proved mine heart. --Ps. xvii. 3.

2. To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or
fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.

They have inferred much from slender premises, and
conjectured when they could not prove. --J. H.
Newman.

3. To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of;
to verify; as, to prove a will.

4. To gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by
trial; to experience; to suffer.

Where she, captived long, great woes did prove.
--Spenser.

5. (Arith.) To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the
correctness of any operation or result; thus, in
subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added
to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater,
the correctness of the subtraction is proved.

6. (Printing) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof
of; as, to prove a page.

Syn: To try; verify; justify; confirm; establish; evince;
manifest; show; demonstrate.

When he launched the Sun in September, Ingersoll said he wanted to prove that new newspapers, if properly designed and promoted, could be introduced in the United States just as they had been in other countries.
Researchers reported the accidental discovery of a family of drugs that may prove more potent with fewer side effects than current medicines for arthritis and other ailments involving inflammation.
Despite the recent controversy, Mr. Garrision is hopeful a successful test will prove a shot in the arm for Morton Thiokol.
Says the J.K. Lasser Institute in its annual publication Your Income Tax: "If your return is audited, you will have to prove that the casualty occurred and the amount of the loss.
Against this background, Mr. Baeza must prove that a monopoly government can be good government.
The police department schedule doesn't reveal any "boxheads" like the three columnists who showed up in Atlanta with boxes on their heads to prove the media would make a story out of anything.
Palapa B-4, with another 24 channels, should prove a good source of revenue as each can be leased for at least $1 million a year.
'We will just plod on and prove to everyone that we have a group where growth can be sustained.' The interim dividend is raised by nearly 50 per cent to 2.8p (1.875p) 'reflecting our confidence in the future,' Mr Barker said.
To imagine, on the strength of recent statistics, that the issue that has bedevilled economic management in postwar years has disappeared could prove over complacent.
Mr. Peterson said the decision could have a far-reaching effect on the state because it will place an additional burden on Medicaid officials to prove that hospitals aren't operating efficiently and economically.
And nothing would prove that as much as a rapid reduction in Salomon's balance sheet through sales of securities.
Frozen offerings imported from farther flung seas may prove a better bet. Last week I bought a solid block of small, white squid and hacked my way gratefully through them.
For Lorimar, meanwhile, Warner might prove to be the most friendly of several potential acquirers said to be circling the problem-plagued company.
No Lawrence Walsh staffer, potential juror or witness can prove, as the law requires, that he isn't relying on immune testimony.
The justices, without comment, let stand rulings that officer Don R. Speer failed to prove the Joplin Globe acted with "actual malice" when it accused him in an editorial of using excessive force.
Republican Dan Heath and Democrat Jill Long campaigned at daybreak today, meeting voters in coffee shops in efforts that could prove crucial given an expected turnout of as low as one-third of the district's more than 200,000 voters.
Now, Kurzban said, the INS must accept affidavits unless it can prove they are false.
Educators want to include five other schools in the radiation monitoring plan to prove their theory that electric and magnetic fields at Sandpiper Shores are no different than the radiation levels that exist on other campuses.
He now has to prove that he can campaign.
The government must return millions of dollars of Manuel Noriega's assets unless it can prove he obtained them illegally, a federal judge has ruled.
If successful, it could prove applicable not only to Wales, but around the world. The idea is to use trees to generate self-sustaining soil in what is now mostly impermeable clay.
But it could prove a painful error for investors to suppose that any such thing exists today.
He said he expects to "get my share of delegates" and to prove "that I can appeal to people all over the country." Polls indicate Dukakis trails far behind Simon and Jackson among Illinois Democrats.
He rises quickly to the top, following the worn Hollywood principle that innocents must always prove themselves wiser than world-weary cynics.
Secretary Baker has been warning in recent days that too sharp a decline in the dollar could prove self-defeating because it might impede the ability of West Germany and Japan to grow rapidly enough to absorb more U.S. products.
Pan American World Airways also is trying to prove that Israel warned U.S. authorities about an impending terrorist attack on Flight 103.
But Robert H. Chandross, chief economist at Lloyds Bank in New York, contends those fears will prove unjustified.
One of the very toughest is Section 89 of the 1989 tax act, which compels corporations to prove they are conferring benefits equally on all employees.
That statement was accompanied by a polaroid photograph of Cordes to prove its authenticity.
But several federal scientists don't buy that: "It is sad to see the agency prove so vulnerable to outside pressure," says one.

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