Avowed

例句/造句/用法:

• To encourage tillage, by keeping up the price of corn, even in the most plentiful years, was the avowed end of the institution. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• A rotation of this kind seems alone a sufficient security against any practices which cannot be avowed. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• The interest in both is of the very same kind: It is general, avowed, and prevails in all times and places. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• 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. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• 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! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• 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. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• The performance of this horrid office is even said to be the avowed business by which some people earn their subsistence. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• To augment our share of the colony trade beyond what it otherwise would be, is the avowed purpose of the monopoly. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• The interest in the performance of promises, besides its moral obligation, is general, avowed, and of the last consequence in life. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• To make it an avowed ideal--a thing of will and intelligence--is to hasten its coming, to illumine its blunders, and, by giving it self-criticism, to convert mistakes into wisdom. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• An augmentation, or a direct raising of the denomination of the coin, always is, and from its nature must be, an open and avowed operation. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• To do so was the avowed purpose of the institution. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• She knew that he had avowed his love for her. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• I now set her down on a seat and told her she should not stir till she had avowed which she meant in the end to accept--the man or the monkey. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.

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