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单词 avow
释义
avow
verb[T]
formal
uk
/əˈvaʊ/us
/əˈvaʊ/
toadmitsomething or say somethingpublicly:
声明；宣称；承认
[+ that]He avowedthatheregrettedwhat he had done.他承认对自己的所作所为感到后悔。
It is asocietyin whichhomosexualityisrarelyavowed.这样一个社会中，很少有人公开承认自己是同性恋。
Opposite
disavowformal
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Admitting & confessing
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Announcing, informing & stating
(Definition ofavowfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofavow

avow
He considers these wishes normal and such as would be avowed by many perfectly sane people.
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Assessing goals is not always easy, for overtly avowed goals may not, of course, be the true goals.
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For the first time in her life, she finds herself holding the reins and avows voracious hunger for power and possession of herself.
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However, avowed eliminativists have always been a fringe, playing against a relatively monolithic functionalist consensus.
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Only one of 12 did not answer the question, and another avowed his incapacity to reply readily.
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Although currently fashionable toavowan evolutionary approach, such a posture is unnecessary.
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His particular avowed position has not previously been in the minds of experimenters.
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First, it may be reduced to an avowed inability to speak about the world in a coherent, distanced way.
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They alsoavowthose states and actions, acknowledging them as their own.
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A patient has arrived at a medical institution that has an avowed mission of caring for the medically indigent.
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Here, the artist protects himself from the pressures of contradictory forces - the im/possibility of art under commodification - by simultaneously avowing and disavowing his work's critical existence.
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It is not achieved through a struggle with the opposing demand to repudiate nature, as is the case with modern thinkers when theyavowthe same principles.
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And, avowing them, they hold themselves open to criticism in the event of not proving to live up to them: not proving to satisfy rational unity in their regard.
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Theyavowjudgments, intentions, and actions and prove able to be held responsible for failures to achieve consistency and other such ideals in their associated per formance.
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I know that many of these religious orders are avowed to poverty, but even if they are poor they have to live and exist.
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