Avow
[ə'vaʊ]
解释:
(v. t.) To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.
(v. t.) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry.
(n.) Avowal.
(n.) To bind, or to devote, by a vow.
(n.) A vow or determination.
伊莱录入
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Acknowledge, confess, own, profess, declare, affirm.
安东尼编辑
同义词及反义词:
[See AVOUCH]
手打:斯蒂芬
解释:
v.t. to declare openly: to own or confess: to affirm or maintain: (law) to justify an act done.—n. a solemn promise: a vow.—pa.p. as adj. self-acknowledged.—adj. Avow′able.—ns. Avow′ableness Avow′ance (obs.); Avow′al a positive declaration: a frank confession.—adv. Avow′edly.—n. Avow′ry (law) the act of avowing and justifying in one's own right the distraining of goods: (obs.) advocacy considered as personified in a patron saint.
艾丽莎手打
例句:
- She did not deny, she did not avow, but looked at me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I fear it might be; I fear it was; but in that case I must avow no light share of weakness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Do you wonder that I avow this to you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- To avow before what altar I now kneel--to reveal the present idol of my soul---- You will make haste about it, if you please. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- To answer would have been to avow that the cap fitted. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- It may seem less unreasonable, if I avow to you that although I don't know Mr Lightwood, I have a disagreeable association connected with him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Isidore far more than you think, or will avow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- To encourage tillage, by keeping up the price of corn, even in the most plentiful years, was the avowed end of the institution. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- A rotation of this kind seems alone a sufficient security against any practices which cannot be avowed. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The interest in both is of the very same kind: It is general, avowed, and prevails in all times and places. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Nor is it a desire of such a performance: For we may bind ourselves without such a desire, or even with an aversion, declared and avowed. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Whispers reach me of Miss Shepherd having said she wished I wouldn't stare so, and having avowed a preference for Master Jones--for Jones! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- After the tissue of social falsehoods in which she had so long moved it was refreshing to step into the open daylight of an avowed expediency. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The performance of this horrid office is even said to be the avowed business by which some people earn their subsistence. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The cool contempt of her manner irritated me into directly avowing that the purpose of my visit had not been answered yet. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- This De Grantmesnil declined, avowing himself vanquished as much by the courtesy as by the address of his opponent. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
康妮手打