| 词汇 | professing |
| 释义 | professing present participle ofprofess 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 break disseminate impart on the recordidiom pass proclaim propagate propagative public put something before someone put something out put something out of its miseryidiom ring stake a claimidiom statement Examples of professingprofessing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Indeed, in many districts, professing a commitment to women's rights might well constitute a disqualification in the eyes of the electoral college. While professing respect for that culture, the physicians insisted the family not be allowed to dictate useless treatment. He ended his speech by professing his faith in monism as the basis for reconciling religion, ethics, and science. A significant number, eleven, girls spent more than ten years in the convent before professing. That is, by explicitly or implicitly professing adherence to those standards, individuals and communities adopt criteria of adequacy by which their cognitive activity may be evaluated. However, it is not clear what it is in religion that contributes to mental health: professing certain counterintuitive beliefs, performing rituals, the social relationships among believers, or what? Harvest labour might be scarce, but farmers professing concern about getting labour at a desired wage rate is not a genuine shortage. Our point is that one cannot have it both ways: professing the power of situations, and blaming the dispositions of research participants when that power falls flat. Americans are much busier "professing" what is already known than generating new and original knowledge. Somehow, calibration was intended as a balanced response to professing that your model, though not correct, is still worthy as a vehicle for quantitative policy analysis. There are, of course, at least two provocative accounts that link the success of occupational strategies of those professing neutrality, humanity, and efficacy to the nature of contemporary social relations. Now their abandonment of the escalator leaves them professing support for our environmental objectives, but opposing the policies necessary to bring them about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In particular, we must do everything to ensure that there is no cooperation between those parties professing to be democratic and the extremist parties. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English You are professing to correct one difficulty in the representative system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not professing to give a legal opinion. 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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