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单词 adjure
释义
adjure
verb[T+ to infinitive]
formal
uk
/əˈdʒʊər/us
/əˈdʒʊr/
toaskorordersomeone to do something:
要求；命令；嘱咐
Thejudgeadjured himtoanswertruthfully.法官要求他据实回答。
Synonyms
beseechold useorliterary
entreat
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to beg for something or beg someone to do something
  • begHe begged her to stay, but she wouldn't listen.
  • imploreI implore you to change your mind.
  • plead withHe pleaded with the guards to be allowed to see his daughter.
  • appeal toI appeal to the public to remain calm.
  • entreatThe banners entreated the government to release the prisoners.
  • adjureThe gospel adjures us to love one another.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making appeals & requests
  • appellate
  • ask forsomeone
  • behest
  • call for orderphrase
  • call onsomeone
  • callsomeonein
  • cap
  • claim
  • demand
  • implore
  • invite
  • pay claim
  • petitioner
  • pretty pleaseidiom
  • propitiation
  • push forsomething
  • put in forsomething
  • put the squeeze onsomeoneidiom
  • reapply
  • requisition
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(Definition ofadjurefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofadjure

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He has adjured us not to use threats.
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Both major parties—no major party has yet adjured it—have long accepted that two major commitments must be honoured.
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I thereforeadjurethe authorities to take full advantage of any ambiguities in our favour.
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We are adjured to increase production, and are told, no doubt quite truly, that every day counts.
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In his closing words, he adjured us to remember the burden upon economy.
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He said that this was a forecast, and adjured us to treat that forecast with "the necessary degree of irreverence".
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That is something which he is adjured to disregard.
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I admit that that is sentimental, and we are adjured not to let sentiment enter into the matter.
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We have been adjured in the last few days to cut unnecessary costs.
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I have been adjured not to be controversial, no matter how seriously provoked, in this debate, nor to speak on any controversial issue.
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That is one of the old superstitions all who have followed political science have long since adjured.
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To ask us toadjurethe local authorities to do that is to ask us to do something which in many cases would be absurd.
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In these debates one is always adjured not to be carried away by sentiment.
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He kept adjuring us not to be mealymouthed and the like, and to speak out with the utmost frankness.
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We are always being adjured that we must bring our plant and machinery up to date.
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