prove

vt.
1.try试探，试验。
△1H.VI.2.2.58: “I mean to provethis lady’s courtesy.”我想试一下这位夫人的款待。
2. bring to the test,test使…受考验，考验。
△R.III.4.2.68:“Prove me,my gracious lord.”请考验我吧，仁慈的主君。
△Wiv.1.3. 105 (98):“His dove will prove，”要拐他的鸽子；要勾引他的老婆。
3. test,try out (in combat) 试验，（在战斗中）考验。
△Lr.4. 6. 91 (90):“There’s my gauntlet,I’ll prove it on agiant.”这是我的铁手套，我要用它向一个巨人挑战。
4. find by tryin g,find out,see,discover试着发现，看出，看到，发现。
△2H.IV. 2.4.303 (279):“Prove that ever Idress myself handsome till thy return!”看吧，在你回来之前我会不会把自己打扮得漂漂亮亮！
△ Ado.1.3. 75 (73):“Shall we go prove what’s to be done?”我们要不要亲自去看一看究竟该怎么办？
5. find out by experience亲自查明。
△ Oth.3.3.190:“I’ll see before I doubt; when I doubt,prove；”我要看见，才会怀疑；怀疑了，就要考查。
△Oth.5.1.66: “As youshall prove us,praise us.”等你弄清楚了，再估量我们吧。
6. show the truth of,testify to by experience证实，（为经验所）证明。
△ 3H.VI.3.3.180: “This provethEdward’s love and Warwick’s honesty.”这证实了爱德华的爱情和沃里克的诚实究竟是怎么一回事。
△ Ham.3.1.47(46):“’Tis too much proved，”事实上也常常证明不假。
7. turn into变成。
△Oth.4.1.257 (246): “Each dropshe falls would prove a crocodile.”她流下的每滴眼泪就会变成一条鳄鱼。
～ vi.
1. prove true证实。
△Tw.3.4.420 (383): “O,if itprove,/ Tempests are kind and salt waves fresh inlove.”i.e. if it should prove to be so,etc. 啊，如果这被证明是真，风暴就发了善心，海水也变得多情！
2. prove to be证明是。
△2H.VI.3.1.148:“And if mydeath might make this island happy,/ And prove theperiod of their tyranny，”如果我的死能使这个岛国幸福，并且标志着他们的横暴的结束…
△2H. VI. 3.1. 257: “in thathe is a fox,/ By nature proved an enemy to theflock,/ Before his chaps be stained with crimson blood,/ As Humphrey proved(i.e. an enemy) byreasons to my liege.”因为它是一只狐狸，凭天性就证明它是羊群的敌人，尽管它的嘴巴还没有沾染上鲜红的血迹，正像有许多理由证明亨弗雷也是国王的敌人。
3. turn out to be,become变成，成为。
△Ado.2.1.296(285):“So I would not he should do me,my lord,lestI should prove the mother of fools.”我当然不愿让他把我放倒，殿下，否则我就可能成为一群傻孩子的娘。
△Mer.3.2.20: “Prove it so，” i.e. Should it prove so; if it turn outto be so.假如结果当真如此。
△Oth.4.3. 27:“She was inlove,and he she loved proved mad,/ And did forsakeher.”她恋爱了，她爱的那个人后来发了疯，把她抛弃了。
△2H.IV.1.3.38:“as in an early spring / We see theappearing buds,which to prove fruit / Hope gives notso much warrant,as despair /That frosts will bitethem.”i.e. as in early spring we see the buds whichwe hope to become good fruit,though we are fully a-ware that they are likely to be blighted by frost. 那就像我们在早春看见蓓蕾，希望它们结成果实，其实我们的希望实现的可能还没有霜灾摧残所带来的绝望大得多呢。
△ R.III.1.1.28:“since I cannot prove a lover / To entertain thesefair well-spoken days,/ I am determined to prove avillain / And hate the idle pleasures of these days.”既然我不能成为 一个情人去愉快地消磨这些需要花言巧语的日子，我就下决心成为一个恶人去仇恨这个时代的轻浮娱乐。
Phrases:
prove on (upon): ❶prove by duel with用与…决斗来证明。
△1H. VI. 2. 4. 98:“And that I’ll prove on bettermen than Somerset，”这一点，我要用与萨默塞特身份更高的人决斗来证明。
❷fight …to maintain one’s word与…决斗以证明自己的话。
△ Shr.4.3.147: “and that I’ll proveupon thee,though thy little finger be armed in athimble.”我可以和你决斗来证实我所说的话，纵然你的小手指上套了顶针我也不怕。

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