英和和英

発音

• IPA: /bɛəɹ ˈaʊt/

動詞

bear out (third-person singular simple present bears out, present participle bearing out, simple past bore out, past participle borne out)

1. (transitive) To corroborate, prove, or confirm; to demonstrate; to provide evidence for.

   bear someone out on something

   It was a promising idea, but the evidence did not bear out their theory.

   • 1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:

     'It looks like being simply a matter of finding this girl, if the conditions up there bear out his tale,' remarked George […]

   • 1985, John Haugeland, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 255:

     Time has borne McCarthy out; but see Schank (1983) for a plea that learning should now be reactivated as a central research topic.

   • 2019 December 17, Howard Davies, “Will the UK really turn into 'Singapore-on-Thames' after Brexit?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     But the idea that Singapore is a deregulated paradise is not borne out by reality, as anyone who has tried to dispose of a piece of used chewing gum there will know.

2. To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last.
   • 1694, Robert South, “Sermon V, VI., Rom I. 32”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume II, London: […] J[ohn] H[eptinstall] for Thomas Bennet […], →OCLC, page 249:

     'Tis Company only that can bear a Man out in an ill Thing

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XXVI, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 128:

     If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark ; weave round them tragic graces ; if even the most mournful, perchance the most abased, among them all, shall at times lift himself to the exalted mounts ; if I shall touch that workman's arm with some ethereal light ; if I shall spread a rainbow over his disastrous set of sun ; then against all mortal critics bear me out in it, thou just spirit of Equality, which hast spread one royal mantle of humanity over all my kind ! Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God !

3. (intransitive, of a horse) To move quickly and sharply in an outward direction during a race; to veer out.

   That horse always bears out on the turns.

アナグラム

• U-boater, outbear