Affidavit

(noun.) written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath.

整理:罗威娜

• Sir Leicester sits in my Lady's room--that room in which Mr. Tulkinghorn read the affidavit in Jarndyce and Jarndyce--particularly complacent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Why then should you expect me to pen this kind of affidavit, which has no object but to keep up a foolish partiality and secure a foolish bequest? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• You copied some affidavits in that cause for me lately. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

整理:奥拉