bear witness

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

蜂拥人群证明他广受欢迎。

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.

但巨面见证了平凡劳动：曾三塔成部分最高那块巨有一个凸——木材加工借鉴而来半个臼接头。