大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 avow


释义：

avow vt. 承认；公开宣称；坦率承认
[ 第三人称单数 avows 现在分词 avowing 过去式 avowed 过去分词 avowed ]

例句：



But whatever the danger, Christ's followers must avow their principles.

但不论遭何危险，跟从基督的人必须承认自己的信仰。



The senator was forced to avow openly that he had received some money from that company.

那个参议员被迫承认曾经收过那家公司的一些钱。



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。



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。



How many of us harbor secret fantasies of such self-assurance that we would never dare avow in public!


According to President Clinton, they can even publicly avow their homosexuality.


Having sat down at the green baize more than once with this gentleman (for such he is), this reviewer can avow that Mr Reese is certainly a leading claimant to that title—but only one among many, and one who has never actually won the world championship held annually in Las Vegas.


Irish talk radio programs have been afire with discussions about the propiority of making a 66 year-old self-made tycoon of global proportions (Quinn was termed the 164th richest man in the world by Forbes in 2008) a national scapegoat, as a substantial minority of the population (especially those in border counties near his own) and some his former job holders avow.