avow
avow 英 [əˈvaʊ] 美 [əˈvaʊ]
vt. 承认；公开宣称；坦率承认
进行时:avowing 过去式:avowed 过去分词:avowed 第三人称单数:avows
- When you avow something, you say it openly for the whole world to hear. If you're a witness in a trial, you'll be asked to take an oath in which you'll avow that you'll tell the truth.
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- vt. 承认；公开宣称；坦率承认
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1. But this fear is counterbalanced by new realizations at work and with my friends, in which I am able to frankly avow that I have a disability.
但是这种害怕被我在工作中和与朋友相处中的新认识抵消了。 在其中，我能够坦率地承认我有疾病。
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2. Those who avow before understand they have a responsibility to help others whether it is to grow self-leadership skills or provide some expert advice.
这些“先公开声明”的人，无论是增强自我领导能力也好，提供专业意见也好，知道他们有责任去帮助他人。
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3. On abandoning his grandfather's opinions for the opinions of his father, he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not.
当他从外祖父的见解转到父亲的见解时，他总以为自己已经站稳了，现在却又怀疑起来，感到自己并不稳，他心里苦闷，不敢自信。
- avow (v.) c. 1300, "uphold, support, approve; stand by, back up (someone); declare openly, take sides openly, affirm;" mid-14c. "admit openly," from Anglo-French avouer, Old French avoer "acknowledge, accept, recognize," especially as a protector (12c., Modern French avouer), from Latin advocare "to call, summon, invite" (see advocate (n.)). A synonym of avouch (q.v.), which tends to contain the more technical, legal aspect of the word. Related: Avowed; avowing.
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