Assertion
[ə'sɜːʃ(ə)n] or [ə'sɝʃən]
解释:
(noun.) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary).
埃尔希编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
(n.) Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.
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同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Affirmation, declaration, asseveration, protestation, position, statement, word, averment, predication, remark.[2]. Vindication, defence, maintenance, support.
录入:李莉斯
例句:
- Remember what I told you on the moor--and ask yourself what my assertion is worth. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- There could be but one suitable reply to your assertion, Mr. Clayton, she said icily, and I regret that I am not a man, that I might make it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Now act as you please: write and contradict my assertion--expose my falsehood as soon as you like. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- He said he was a Jew, but there was no distinctive feature to verify this assertion. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- My dear son, I entreat you never to make such an assertion again. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- I owe to her--what I would concede to no man alive--a PROOF of the truth of my assertion. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The circumstances would always be stronger than his assertion. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- But I doubt the correctness of the assertion. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- All the jewellers consulted, at once confirmed the Colonel's assertion that he possessed one of the largest diamonds in the world. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- There is the fact of the funeral at Limmeridge, and there is the assertion of the inscription on the tomb. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- None of those present ventured to make any remark on this assertion, although all felt that it was merely a random guess, based on the sanguine dream of an inventor. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- This family fiction was the family assertion of itself against her services. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- It was most convenient to Emma not to make a direct reply to this assertion; she chose rather to take up her own line of the subject again. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Now it is a matter of fact that in the gospels all that body of theological assertion which constitutes Christianity finds little support. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- We could only hope to succeed in throwing a serious doubt on the assertion of her death, a doubt which nothing short of a legal inquiry can settle. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Edison's assertions were treated with scepticism by the scientific world, which was not then ready for the discovery and not sufficiently furnished with corroborative data. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Fair words and fair pretences; but I penetrated below those assertions of themselves and depreciations of me, and they were no better. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Both assertions were gratuitously made, and both were false. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I have already assured you of my fidelity, said Raymond with disdainful coldness, triple assertions will avail nothing where one is despised. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Such assertions had a certain element of truth in them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- How could she deny that credit to his assertions in one instance, which she had been obliged to give in the other? 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- It will be a comfort to me to speak where belief has gone beforehand, and where I shall not seem to be offering assertions of my own honesty. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- For Gerald came down like a sledge-hammer with his assertions, anything the little German said was merely contemptible rubbish. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
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