| 词汇 | avow |
| 释义 | avow verb[ T ] formaluk /əˈvaʊ/ us /əˈvaʊ/ to admit something or say something publicly: 声明;宣称;承认 [ + that ]He avowed that he regretted what he had done.他承认对自己的所作所为感到后悔。 It is a society in which homosexuality is rarely avowed.这样一个社会中，很少有人公开承认自己是同性恋。 Opposite disavowformal Admitting & confessing acknowledge something as something acknowledgedly acknowledgment admission of guilt admittedly avowedly breastbeating clean climb down come cleanidiom concede confess hand retraction self-admittedly self-confessedly self-confession stand swallow your wordsidiom take something back You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Announcing, informing & stating Examples of avowavow He considers these wishes normal and such as would be avowed by many perfectly sane people. Assessing goals is not always easy, for overtly avowed goals may not, of course, be the true goals. For the first time in her life, she finds herself holding the reins and avows voracious hunger for power and possession of herself. However, avowed eliminativists have always been a fringe, playing against a relatively monolithic functionalist consensus. Only one of 12 did not answer the question, and another avowed his incapacity to reply readily. Although currently fashionable to avow an evolutionary approach, such a posture is unnecessary. His particular avowed position has not previously been in the minds of experimenters. First, it may be reduced to an avowed inability to speak about the world in a coherent, distanced way. They also avow those states and actions, acknowledging them as their own. A patient has arrived at a medical institution that has an avowed mission of caring for the medically indigent. Here, the artist protects himself from the pressures of contradictory forces - the im/possibility of art under commodification - by simultaneously avowing and disavowing his work's critical existence. It is not achieved through a struggle with the opposing demand to repudiate nature, as is the case with modern thinkers when they avow the same principles. And, avowing them, they hold themselves open to criticism in the event of not proving to live up to them: not proving to satisfy rational unity in their regard. They avow judgments, intentions, and actions and prove able to be held responsible for failures to achieve consistency and other such ideals in their associated per formance. I know that many of these religious orders are avowed to poverty, but even if they are poor they have to live and exist. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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