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单词 profess
释义
profess
verb[T]
uk
/prəˈfes/us
/prəˈfes/
tostatesomething, sometimes in a way that is notsincere:
声称；自称；谎称
[+ to infinitive]She professes nottobeinterestedinmoney.她声称对钱不感兴趣。
I don't professtoknowall thedetailsabout thecase.我不敢妄称了解这个案件的所有细节。
She professesignoranceof thewholeaffair, though I'm notsureIbelieveher.她声称对整个事件一无所知，但我不能确定是否该相信她。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Announcing, informing & stating
  • acquaintsomeone/yourselfwithsomething
  • affirm
  • annunciation
  • avowedly
  • awaken
  • awakensomeonetosomething
  • break
  • break it/the news tosomeoneidiom
  • breathe/say a wordidiom
  • known
  • on the recordidiom
  • proclamation
  • pronounce
  • putsomethingout ofitsmiseryidiom
  • rapporteur
  • record
  • resensitize
  • rollout
  • self-anointed
  • statement
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(Definition ofprofessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

profess| American Dictionary

profess
verb
us
/prəˈfes/
toclaimsomething, sometimesfalsely:
[+ to infinitive]They professed to have noknowledgeof theevent.
[T]Shecontinuesto profess herinnocence.

professed

adjective[not gradable]us
/prəˈfest/
a professedbelief
(Definition ofprofessfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprofess

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Relatively few demonstrated any informed awareness of the raft of policies outlined above and some that professed understanding were in reality confused or mistaken.
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The wives professed themselves disinterested in coitus twice as frequently as they reported that the husbands lacked interest.
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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.
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It is precisely the move one would and should expect theology, and those whoprofessto do theology, to make.
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The star professed not to mind 'being sandwiched between a monkey act and an acrobatic specialty'.
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Spiritual coadjutors and professed were ordained priests and received advanced training in theology, though the latter studied longer than the former.
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Indeed, in many districts, professing a commitment to women's rights might well constitute a disqualification in the eyes of the electoral college.
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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.
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While professing respect for that culture, the physicians insisted the family not be allowed to dictate useless treatment.
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Students of the built environment oftenprofessa love of drawing.
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The movement's own promotional literature professed obedience to the state, and asserted that spiritual regeneration fostered peace and civic virtue.
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Communist rulers had been removed, not by outside interventions, but by the very working classes they professed to represent.
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The astonishment he professed was pure theatre for the record.
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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?
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Of the 50 girls admitted as boarders between 1719 and 1745, 88 per cent later professed.
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