professing
present participle ofprofess
| 单词 | professing |
| 释义 | professing present participle ofprofess profess verb[T] uk/prəˈfes/us/prəˈfes/tostatesomething, sometimes in a way that is notsincere: [+ to infinitive]She professes nottobeinterestedinmoney. I don't professtoknowall thedetailsabout thecase. She professesignoranceof thewholeaffair, though I'm notsureIbelieveher. Announcing, informing & stating
Examplesofprofessingprofessing 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,professinga commitment to women's rights might well constitute a disqualification in the eyes of the electoral college. From theCambridge English Corpus Whileprofessingrespect for that culture, the physicians insisted the family not be allowed to dictate useless treatment. From theCambridge English Corpus He ended his speech byprofessinghis faith in monism as the basis for reconciling religion, ethics, and science. From theCambridge English Corpus A significant number, eleven, girls spent more than ten years in the convent beforeprofessing. From theCambridge English Corpus That is, by explicitly or implicitlyprofessingadherence to those standards, individuals and communities adopt criteria of adequacy by which their cognitive activity may be evaluated. From theCambridge English Corpus However, it is not clear what it is in religion that contributes to mental health:professingcertain counterintuitive beliefs, performing rituals, the social relationships among believers, or what? From theCambridge English Corpus Harvest labour might be scarce, but farmersprofessingconcern about getting labour at a desired wage rate is not a genuine shortage. From theCambridge English Corpus Our point is that one cannot have it both ways:professingthe power of situations, and blaming the dispositions of research participants when that power falls flat. From theCambridge English Corpus Americans are much busier "professing" what is already known than generating new and original knowledge. From theCambridge English Corpus Somehow, calibration was intended as a balanced response toprofessingthat your model, though not correct, is still worthy as a vehicle for quantitative policy analysis. From theCambridge English Corpus There are, of course, at least two provocative accounts that link the success of occupational strategies of thoseprofessingneutrality, humanity, and efficacy to the nature of contemporary social relations. From theCambridge English Corpus Now their abandonment of the escalator leaves themprofessingsupport 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 theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 In particular, we must do everything to ensure that there is no cooperation between those partiesprofessingto be democratic and the extremist parties. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English You areprofessingto correct one difficulty in the representative system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I am notprofessingto give a legal opinion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen 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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