【prove音标】 英[pru:v] 美[pruprovev]
【单词释义】 prove是什么意思：
v.证明，证实；展现，展示，显示(自己的才能)；证明是，结果是；[法]验证，检定
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[第三人称单数] proves
[单词现在分词] proving
[单词过去式] proved
[单词过去分词] proven,proved
【prove形近词/近似词】
disprove vt.反驳；证明…是虚假的
disapprove v. 不赞成；不同意；不批准，否决；反对
reprove vt.指责；责备；非难
improve v. 改善；改进
approve v. 批准；赞成，同意
【近义词解析】
◇ 证实，证明
certify ([六级/考研]v. 证实，证明)：尤指经过某种检验而证实某事正确或真实。
confirm (v. 证实，证明)：指通过更多的证据确定某事是真实的。
demonstrate ([四级]v. 证明，证实)：指清楚地论证或证实某事。
prove (v. 证明)：普通用词，指以事实等证明某事是真实的。
testify ([六级/考研]v. [书]证明，证实)：指清楚地说明某种情况，常后接介词 to。
【单词例句】
◇ All the people throughout the city had heard of the wonderful property the cloth was to possess; and all were anxious to learn how wise, or how ignorant, their neighbors might prove to be.
全城的人都听说过这种布料有一种奇异的力量，所以大家都很想趁这机会来测验一下，看看他们的邻人究竟有多笨，有多傻。
◇ MKII, a planet billions of kilometers away, is the origin of life in many religions. Physicists have proved the theory that its gentle climate and the pull of its gravity are similar to the earth’s.
MK二号是一颗几十亿公里外的行星，它在许多宗教里都是生命起源的地方。物理学家已经证明了它温和的气候和重力的牵引都和地球相似的理论；
---- Explore MKII
◇ For dogs, though, an excess of xylitol could prove fatal because it kickstarts a rapid release of the hormone insulin. Too much insulin affects the amount of glucose (sugar) in your dog’s blood which, in turn, could cause seizures and affect your pet's liver.
然而，对狗来说，摄入过量木糖醇可能会致命，因为木糖醇可以导致胰岛素迅速分泌。胰岛素过量会影响狗狗血液中的葡萄糖含量，结果可能会引发癫痫，损伤狗狗的肝脏。
---- Food that dogs cannot eat
◇ In 2007, University of Florida zoologist Kent Vliet actually proved that the animals do sob while snacking. But because crocodiles eat while in the water—making a study of their meal-time tears difficult—he studied their close relatives, caimans and alligators, who might dine on dry land.
2007年，佛罗里达大学的动物学家肯特·弗利特证明了动物在进食的时候确实会哭泣。但因为鳄鱼是在水中进食的，研究它们进食期间是否会落泪比较困难，所以弗利特就研究了鳄鱼的近亲凯门鳄和短吻鳄，它们会在旱地上进食。
---- Where does the expression 'crocodile tears'
◇ The money for which I shall sell this milk will enable me to increase my stock of eggs to three hundred,These eggs,allowing for what may prove addle,and what may be destroyed by vermin,will produce at least two hundred and fifty chickens.
我卖了这罐牛奶后，用这笔钱买鸡蛋，这样我有的鸡蛋可以增加到300个。用这300个鸡蛋孵小鸡，这就算有坏的、生虫的，至少也能孵出250只小鸡。