| 单词 | assert |
| 释义 | as·sert 1. < I am far from asserting it was the actual way — Havelock Ellis > 2. a. < assert his manhood — James Joyce > b. < he was never able to assert himself sufficiently > c. < by again asserting God as an active force in history — Time > 3. archaic a. b. < I will assert it from the scandal — Jeremy Taylor > Synonyms: < we dissect and study and describe a language in modern times on the basis of a structural analysis, and then assert what its usage is — Joshua Whatmough > < as early as 1808 Jefferson's cabinet asserted that the United States had a common interest with the revolutionists in excluding European influence — A.P.Whitaker > < hill-dwellers, whose language, it is asserted, resembles Elizabethan English — American Guide Series: Arkansas > declare is sometimes used in reference to explicit, open, public statement, perhaps formal < almost without exception, the New Jersey press daily declares its independence from its metropolitan rivals — American Guide Series: New Jersey > < the law in many states declared mixed marriages illegal — Oscar Handlin > profess may refer to open declaration, perhaps repeated, especially of one's own inclinations or capacities, sometimes hypocritical < if judicial critics do not learn modesty from the past they profess to esteem, it is not from lack of material — John Dewey > < an orthodox Communist leader who professed to speak for the submerged masses — Allan Murray > < enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which in fact are not your own — Jane Austen > affirm may suggest delivery of a statement with an earnest appearance of truth and conviction, sometimes a factitious appearance < affirmed that he took no part in this black deed — W.H.Hudson †1922 > < it will be affirmed that much learning deadens or perverts poetic sensibility — T.S.Eliot > < politicians more often affirm their desire for retirement than show that they really mean it — Times Literary Supplement > aver may suggest confidence and genuine belief in the truth of a statement that might be questioned < Sedgwick averred that he had wasted two years' work through adhering to Werner's notions — S.F.Mason > < averring that leniency would be a mistake in the case of the confirmed young criminal — Current Biography > protest may indicate forceful declaration in the face of doubt or contradiction < Streicher protesting he'd never hurt a soul — Current Biography > < we tend to suspect that a man who protests that his aim is the production of beauty and goodness is something of a charlatan — T.D.Weldon > avouch, less used than others in this group, may apply to statements substantiated by certain personal knowledge or by irrefutable authority < as anyone who is familiar with Communist tactics can avouch — W.R.Kintner > avow stresses open, frank declaration, with full personal acknowledgment and responsibility < communists, fascists, and other avowed enemies of parliamentarism — F.Ogg & H.Zink > < “as to the great service,” said Carton, “I am bound to avow to you, when you speak of it in that way, that it was mere professional claptrap” — Charles Dickens > predicate in this sense may indicate an affirming of something as a quality, attribute, or concomitant < to predicate of diabolic agencies, which are gifted with angelic intellects, the highly ridiculous activities which are so characteristic of poltergeist visitations — J.McCarthy > < logic works by predicating of the single instance what is true of all its kind — William James > warrantmay apply to assured statement made without brooking contradiction, with or as if with one's personal guarantee < I'll warrant he's as good a gentleman as any — John Buchan > Synonym: see in addition maintain. |
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