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单词 protestation
释义
protestation
noun[Cusually plural]
formal
uk
/ˌprɒt.esˈteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌprɑː.t̬esˈteɪ.ʃən/
anactof saying somethingforcefullyorcomplainingabout something:
抗议；郑重声明；主张
Ignoring my protestations, they wentaheadandchoppedthetreedown.他们不理睬我的抗议，继续砍个不停，把树砍倒了。
Their protestationsofloyaltyseemratherhollowinviewof the way theybehaved.从他们的表现来看，他们表示效忠的豪言壮语显得很空洞。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Complaining
  • be/go on atsomeoneidiom
  • bellyaching
  • bewail
  • brouhaha
  • bugger, sod, etc. this for a lark!idiom
  • complain
  • complaining
  • create/kick up/raise a stinkidiom
  • gnashing of teethidiom
  • grouch
  • lodge
  • mutter
  • nark
  • raise a rumpusidiom
  • rumpus
  • squawk
  • start on atsomeone
  • vituperation
  • whinging
  • whiny
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(Definition ofprotestationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprotestation

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His fear of excess is shown in his many half-joking protestations about how small he is.
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Despite their protestations, arsenal managers were not above engaging in poaching themselves.
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In spite of his protestations, those who turned against him were his family, friends and professional colleagues rather than political enemies.
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When it created unpleasant problems in the 1890s perceptions changed, and 'formerly mild protestations turned anxious and intense' (p. 37).
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Despite protestations to the contrary,1 political science has achieved a great deal in the study of voting behaviour.
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Despite their protestations, their actions show that correctness is to be valued.
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The prince's many protestations of love for the infanta may well have been more for form's sake than heart-felt.
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Initially, he believed his client's protestations of innocence.
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Protestationonly bound subscribers to promise, vow, and protest.
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The worry is similar to a charge sometimes leveled against existentialists: despite their protestations to the contrary, they do posit at least one objective value, namely authenticity.
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Despite his protestations, this does not seem to rule out the possibility that worlds could differ in detail not connected to the degree of reality they contain.
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Despite liberal protestations against hierarchical organisations, such organisations may have more potential to address the power relations and social conflicts that are downplayed in the liberal discourse.
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Rap's textuality, perhaps not too unlike the discursive progressivism allotted to bossa nova's sometimes revolutionary disposition, consists of an aura of individualism, a celebratory, sometimes cunningprotestation.
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It would make a mockery of those protestations if they did not accept these propositions now.
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Therefore, are not her protestations that she has been exercising free speech and clarification quite preposterous?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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