• vt. 證明，表明；顯示
• vi. 顯示，出現
• n. 載貨單，貨單；旅客名單
• adj. 顯然的，明顯的；明白的

來自拉丁語manifestus,清晰的，明顯的，抓個正著的，來自manus,手，詞源同manual,-fest,擊，打，抓住，詞源同infest,offend.引申詞義顯現，展現。

manifest

manifest: [14] That which is manifest is etymologically ‘grasped by the hand’ – that is, ‘palpable, obvious’. The word comes via Old French from Latin manifestus. This was a later form of manufestus, a compound formed from manus ‘hand’ and *festus ‘gripped’. Manifesto [17] is a borrowing from Italian; it originally meant ‘evidence, proof’, and only gradually developed to the present-day ‘political statement’.
=> manifesto, manual

manifest (adj.)

late 14c., "clearly revealed," from Old French manifest "evident, palpable," (12c.), or directly from Latin manifestus "plainly apprehensible, clear, apparent, evident;" of offenses, "proved by direct evidence;" of offenders, "caught in the act," probably from manus "hand" (see manual) + -festus "struck" (compare second element of infest).

Other nations have tried to check ... the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the Continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions. [John O'Sullivan (1813-1895), "U.S. Magazine & Democratic Review," July 1845]

The phrase apparently is O'Sullivan's coinage; the notion is as old as the republic.

manifest (v.)

late 14c., "to spread" (one's fame), "to show plainly," from manifest (adj.) or else from Latin manifestare "to discover, disclose, betray" (see manifest (adj.)). Meaning "to display by actions" is from 1560s; reflexive sense, of diseases, etc., "to reveal as in operation" is from 1808. Related: Manifested; manifesting.

manifest (n.)

"ship's cargo," 1706; see manifest (adj.). Earlier, "a public declaration" (c. 1600; compare manifesto), from French manifeste, verbal noun from manifester. Earlier still in English as "a manifestation" (1560s).

1. Their frustration and anger will manifest itself in crying and screaming.

他們用哭泣與尖叫表達自己的沮喪和憤怒。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Some of her social aspirations were made manifest.

她流露出了對社會的些許期望。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The same alarm is manifest everywhere.

到處彌漫著同樣的恐慌。

來自柯林斯例句

4. It was their manifest failure to modernize the country's industries.

他們使國家進行工業現代化,明顯失敗了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. He doesn't manifest much interest in his his studies.

他表現出對學業沒多大興趣.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》