英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /bɛəɹ ˈaʊt/

動詞

bear out (三人称単数 現在形 bears out, 現在分詞 bearing out, 過去形 bore out, 過去分詞 borne out)

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

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

   • 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.

2. To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last.
   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:

     It is 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 57395299, 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 !

アナグラム

• U-boater, outbear