• vt. 证明，表明；显示
• vi. 显示，出现
• n. 载货单，货单；旅客名单
• adj. 显然的，明显的；明白的

来自拉丁语manifestus,清晰的，明显的，抓个正着的，来自manus,手，词源同manual,-fest,击，打，抓住，词源同infest,offend.引申词义显现，展现。

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.

他们用哭泣与尖叫表达自己的沮丧和愤怒。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Some of her social aspirations were made manifest.

她流露出了对社会的些许期望。

来自柯林斯例句

3. The same alarm is manifest everywhere.

到处弥漫着同样的恐慌。

来自柯林斯例句

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

他们使国家进行工业现代化,明显失败了.

来自《简明英汉词典》

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

他表现出对学业没多大兴趣.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》