mass noun
1- the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid根据; 证明：
the study finds little evidence of overt discrimination.
研究几乎没有找到存在明显歧视的根据。
1.1
- Law information given personally, drawn from a document, or in the form of material objects, tending or used to establish facts in a legal investigation or admissible as testimony in a law court【律】证据：
without evidence, they can't bring a charge.
没有证据, 他们不能提起诉讼。
1.2
- signs; indications迹象; 痕迹：
there was no obvious evidence of a break-in.
没有非法入室的明显痕迹。
with obj.［一般作be evidenced］
- be or show evidence of证实; 证明：
that it has been populated from prehistoric times is evidenced by the remains of Neolithic buildings.
史前时期那里就有人住过的观点为新石器时代的建筑遗址所证实。
短语
give evidence
- Law give information and answer questions formally and in person in a law court or at an inquiry【律】作证。
in evidence
- noticeable; conspicuous明显的; 显眼的：
his dramatic flair is still very much in evidence.
他的戏剧才能仍然十分引人瞩目。
turn King's（或Queen's或〈美〉state's）evidence
- Law (of a criminal) give information in court against one's partners in order to receive a less severe punishment oneself【律】（罪犯）供出对同案犯不利的证据; 作告发同案犯的证人。
词源
Middle English: via Old French from Latin evidentia, from evident- 'obvious to the eye or mind' （see EVIDENT）.