| 词汇 | pledged |
| 释义 | pledged past simple and past participle ofpledge pledge verb[ T ] uk /pledʒ/ us /pledʒ/ to make a serious or formal promise to give or do something: 发誓;保证 We are asking people to pledge their support for our campaign.我们正请求人们承诺支持我们的运动。 If you join the armed forces, you have to pledge allegiance to your country.如果参军，你必须宣誓效忠你的祖国。 So far, £50,000 has been pledged (= people have promised to pay this amount) in response to the appeal.到目前为止，人们已承诺捐款5万英镑以响应这项呼吁。 [ + to infinitive ]Both sides have pledged to end the fighting.双方均已保证停战。 I've been pledged to secrecy.我已发誓保守秘密。 to promise someone something promiseI promise that I'll be home before dark. guaranteeI can't guarantee that the operation will be successful. give (someone) your wordHe gave me his word that the job would be finished on time. assure"Don't worry, your car will be ready tomorrow", the mechanic assured him. swearI didn't know what happened, I swear. pledgeWe are asking people to pledge their support for our campaign. The government has pledged to reduce the amount of chemicals used in food production.政府承诺减少食品生产中化学制品的用量。 The president pledged to respect the existing frontiers between the two countries.总统承诺维持两国间疆界现状。 He pledged undying love/loyalty.他发誓他的爱／忠诚至死不渝。 The minister has pledged his whole-hearted support for the scheme. Both Britain and the United States are pledging their support for the campaign. Making & breaking promises & commitments assurance be on your honouridiom breach of contract commit someone to something commitment committed cross my heart (and hope to die)idiom deliver on something fink fink out oath pact pledge promises, promises!idiom promisor promissory repledge restrictive covenant sworn vow Examples of pledgedpledged In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Given this definition, we see that the electroacoustic community has already pledged allegiance to transcendence. Aldermen, vestrymen and the governors of guilds solemnly pledged not to scatter ' secret ' matters abroad. All member states were pledged to remove all impediments to international trade. On the point of default the creditors usually found that the assets pledged as their security were beyond their reach. We have pledged ourselves to the care of the sick. Pledged alliances did not have a force of constraint over participants to the extent their form encourages us to believe. My virtue has already pledged itself to continue the contest. They mutually pledged to one another that they would not allow similar interventions in the event either was in a hopeless situation. The long-servers, most of the hands but especially spinners, were detailed and praised, and loyalty, including political loyalty, pledged to the son. An organization of people pledged to donate organs to one another functions in a very real sense to circumvent policy prohibiting socially directed donation. For a list of planned and pledged investment projects see their reports (1998). When both sides pledged to support the political goals of some of their enemies' subject nationalities, others were endangered. Where the frankpledge system existed, all free and servile men were pledged to one another in small groups, usually of ten men, providing mutual surety. One, gruffly pledged to the unadumbrated vulgate and, quick in temper, stands in scorn of any bookishness. Revealingly, however, only half of these households found themselves able to redeem the goods they had pledged. 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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