| 词汇 | profess |
| 释义 | profess verb[ T ] uk /prəˈfes/ us /prəˈfes/ to state something, sometimes in a way that is not sincere: 声称;自称;谎称 [ + to infinitive ]She professes not to be interested in money.她声称对钱不感兴趣。 I don't profess to know all the details about the case.我不敢妄称了解这个案件的所有细节。 She professes ignorance of the whole affair, though I'm not sure I believe her.她声称对整个事件一无所知，但我不能确定是否该相信她。 Announcing, informing & stating acquaint someone/yourself with something annunciation apprise someone of something avowedly awaken someone to something bear break impart pass proclaim propagate propagation propagative public put something before someone put something out reported ring smoke signal stake a claimidiom profess | American Dictionaryprofess verb us/prəˈfes/ to claim something, sometimes falsely: [ + to infinitive ]They professed to have no knowledge of the event. [ T ]She continues to profess her innocence. professedadjective[ not gradable ]us/prəˈfest/ a professed belief Examples of professprofess Relatively few demonstrated any informed awareness of the raft of policies outlined above and some that professed understanding were in reality confused or mistaken. The wives professed themselves disinterested in coitus twice as frequently as they reported that the husbands lacked interest. The government's reconsideration of incomes, employment and profits, released at the end of 1990, professed a more open strategy on competition, remuneration and private accumulation. It is precisely the move one would and should expect theology, and those who profess to do theology, to make. The star professed not to mind 'being sandwiched between a monkey act and an acrobatic specialty'. Spiritual coadjutors and professed were ordained priests and received advanced training in theology, though the latter studied longer than the former. Indeed, in many districts, professing a commitment to women's rights might well constitute a disqualification in the eyes of the electoral college. The liberalism they professed was never strong enough to exceed the limitations of the halfhear ted initiatives for reform which issued from the colonial administration. While professing respect for that culture, the physicians insisted the family not be allowed to dictate useless treatment. Students of the built environment often profess a love of drawing. The movement's own promotional literature professed obedience to the state, and asserted that spiritual regeneration fostered peace and civic virtue. Communist rulers had been removed, not by outside interventions, but by the very working classes they professed to represent. The astonishment he professed was pure theatre for the record. To what degree should a person who professes to value a particular identity be prepared to behave in ways that contribute to sustaining that identity? Of the 50 girls admitted as boarders between 1719 and 1745, 88 per cent later professed. 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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