Affirm
[ə'fɜːm] or [ə'fɝm]
解释:
(verb.) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; 'Before God I swear I am innocent'.
(verb.) say yes to.
整理:威廉--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
(v. t.) To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny.
(v. t.) To declare, as a fact, solemnly, under judicial sanction. See Affirmation, 4.
(v. i.) To declare or assert positively.
(v. i.) To make a solemn declaration, before an authorized magistrate or tribunal, under the penalties of perjury; to testify by affirmation.
校对:佩德罗
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Declare, aver, assert, maintain, asseverate, avouch, vouch, allege, say, profess, protest, pronounce, predicate.[2]. Confirm, ratify, approve, establish.
v. n. Assert, declare, aver, say, state, SWEAR, testify, depose, bear witness.
弗兰克编辑
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Assert, swear, testify, tell, aver, propound, asseverate, depose, state,declare, endorse, maintain
ANT:Deny, dispute, doubt, demur, negative, contradict, gainsay, oppugn, impugn,oppose
手打:莉莎
解释:
v.t. to assert confidently or positively: to ratify a judgment: to confirm or maintain a statement of one's own or another's: (log.) to make a statement in the affirmative: (law) to make a formal declaration or affirmation without an oath.—adj. Affirm′able that may be affirmed (with of).—n. Affirm′ance affirmation assertion confirmation.—adj. Affirm′ant—also n. one who affirms.—n. Affirmā′tion act of asserting: that which is affirmed: (law) the solemn declaration made by Quakers and others incapable of taking an oath.—adj. and n. Affirm′ative that affirms or asserts: positive not negative: dogmatic.—adv. Affirm′atively.—adj. Affirm′atory.
艾米编辑
例句:
- This the Muses affirm to be the stock from which discord has sprung, wherever arising; and this is their answer to us. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- How dare you affirm that, Jane Eyre? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Play tends to reproduce and affirm the crudities, as well as the excellencies, of surrounding adult life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- You are further aware that most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- I affirm that the remedy which that admirable lady has proposed is the only remedy that will spare you the horrors of public scandal. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- So-and-so-and-so constitute a play, they affirm,--this thing doesn't meet the requirements, so away with it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- And what does the judge affirm to be the life which is next, and the pleasure which is next? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Meantime, Mr. Rochester affirmed I was wearing him to skin and bone, and threatened awful vengeance for my present conduct at some period fast coming. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- I was a _lusus naturae_, she affirmed, as a village schoolmistress: she was sure my previous history, if known, would make a delightful romance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- No, I sent for him: but you know, you affirmed that I might do this with safety, since you were sure he would not obey my summons. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- I don't blush--I never _do_ blush, affirmed she, while another eddy from the heart sent up its scarlet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- An appeal was taken in the above suit to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and on October 4, 1892, the decree of the lower court was affirmed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- It would do, I affirmed with some disdain, perfectly well. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- God's vengeance, he said, was preparing for me, and affirmed that in a vision of the night he had beheld the manner and the instrument of my doom. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- In speaking of education Plato rather startles us by affirming that a child must be trained in falsehood first and in truth afterwards. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- A man that is ungrateful to his benefactor, in a manner affirms, that he never received any favours from him. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- You go out to gossip, he affirms; you come home to read and reflect. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Moore says so, and affirms he wants nobody. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- That which he affirms and loves one day--a little latter he turns on it in a fury of destruction. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
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