bear witness

1.The huge crowd bore witness to the popularity of this man.

蜂拥人群广受欢迎。

2.But their surfaces bear witness to homely labor: Topping the tallest stone, once part of a trilithon, is a tenon—half of a mortise-and-tenon joint borrowed from woodworking.

但巨石表面见了平凡劳动：曾是三石塔成部分最高那块巨石有一个凸榫——是从木材加工借鉴半个榫臼接头。