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profess

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漢語翻譯


vt. 聲稱, 以...為業, 偽稱, 講授
vi. 表白, 承認, 當教授
【法】 表示, 聲稱, 承認

詞型變化:

副詞:professedly 動詞過去式:professed 過去分詞:professed 現在分詞:professing 第三人稱單數:professes 

英文解釋:

動詞 profess:

  1. practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about
  2. confess one's faith in, or allegiance to
  3. admit, make a clean breast of
    同義詞:concede, confess
  4. state freely
  5. receive into a religious order or congregation
  6. take vows, as in religious order
  7. state insincerely
    同義詞:pretend

例句:

  1. He professed to know nothing about the matter.
    他聲稱對此事一無所知。
  2. He professed himself to be a poet.
    自稱是詩人。

詳細解釋:


pro.fess

v.(動詞)
pro.fessed,pro.fess.ing,pro.fess.es
v.tr.(及物動詞)
To affirm openly; declare or claim:
公開承認;宣布或聲稱:
例句:
.I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections.(William Harvey)
.我確認在學習和講授解剖學中都不能靠書本,而應靠解剖標本.(威廉·哈維)

To make a pretense of; pretend:
自稱…;假裝:
例句:
.He professed to despise everything that had happened since 850.(Louis Auchincloss)
.他自稱厭惡自850年以來發生的一切事情.(路易斯·奧金克洛斯)

To claim skill in or knowledge of:
執…為業:聲稱精通某一技術或知識
例句:
profess medicine.
行醫

To affirm belief in:
宣稱信仰
例句:
profess Catholicism.
宣稱信仰天主教

To receive into a religious order or congregation.
接受入教:接受…加入宗教組織或團體
v.intr.(不及物動詞)
To make an open affirmation.
聲稱:公開承認
To take the vows of a religious order or congregation.
宣誓入教:宣誓加入某宗教組織或團體

來源:
Middle English professen [to take vows]
中古英文 professen [宣誓]
from Old French profes [that has taken a religious vow] from Medieval Latin professus [avowed]
源自 古法文 profes [已宣誓的人] 源自 中世紀拉丁語 professus [公開,宣稱]
and from Medieval Latin profess3re [to administer a vow]
並源自 中世紀拉丁語 profess3re [進行宣誓]
both from Latin professus [past participle of] profitôro [to affirm openly]
都源自 拉丁語 professus [] profitôro的過去分詞 [公開宣布]
pro- [forth] * see pro-
pro- [向外,向前] *參見 pro-
fatôro [to acknowledge] * see bh3- 2
fatôro [承認] *參見 bh3- 2

【引伸】
profess.edly
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