professing

英 [prəˈfesɪŋ]

美 [prəˈfesɪŋ]

v.  妄称; 伪称; 声称; 宣称; 公开表明; 信奉，信仰(某一宗教)
profess的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 自称；伪称；谎称；妄称
  If youprofess todo or have something, you claim that you do it or have it, often when you do not.
  1. She professed to hate her nickname...
     她自称痛恨自己的外号。
  2. Why do organisations profess that they care?...
     为什么机构都谎称自己对此很关心？
  3. 'I don't know,' Pollard replied, professing innocence.
     “我不知道，”波拉德回答说，谎称自己是无辜的。
  4. ...the Republicans' professed support for traditional family values.
     共和党人自称的对传统的家庭价值观的支持
• VERB 表达，表明（感情、观点、信仰等）
  If youprofessa feeling, opinion, or belief, you express it.
  1. He professed to be content with the arrangement...
     他对这个安排表示满意。
  2. Bacher professed himself pleased with the Indian tour.
     巴奇尔表示对印度之行很满意。
  3. ...a right to profess their faith in Islam.
     表明他们的伊斯兰教信仰的权利

英英释义

noun

• an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion
  1. a profession of disagreement
  Synonym:profession

双语例句

• So he thought over various plans for relief, and finally hit pon that of professing to be fond of Pain-killer.
  他绞尽脑汁，终于想出一个解脱的计划：假称喜欢吃止痛药。
• Such aspirations are shared and also disputed with others professing to share the same or similarly formulated and identified standards of aspiration.
  同样，在声称拥有相同或者相似的规范和确定标准的地方，这种愿望也或被共享或被争议着。
• All over Western and central Europe barbarian chiefs were now reigning as kings, dukes and the like, practically independent but for the most part professing some sort of shadowy allegiance to the emperor.
  在西欧和中欧各地，蛮族首领此时执掌着国王、君主以及诸如此类的大权，实际上相互独立，但是他们大多表示对皇帝某种象征性的效忠。
• It is no use professing to want zero problems with the neighbours without making a much broader effort to resolve such ancient quarrels as those with Armenia or over Cyprus.
  自称想与邻国毫无争端，和平共处，而没有做出更广泛的努力来解决与亚美尼亚或塞浦路斯的古老争议（历史遗留问题），这是没有用的。
• I'm professing that I'm weak.
  我坦白自己的软弱。
• I'm sort of professing my love here.
  我的爱情正在紧要关头。
• Men began thinking about professing their love 97.3 days into a relationship – six weeks earlier than women, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reports.
  据《个性与社会心理学杂志》的报道，男性在进入恋爱关系第97.3天时会开始考虑示爱，比女性早了六周。
• He is professing history at a university.
  他还在一所大学教授历史。
• Although professing diametrically opposite principles from those of the editor of the other paper, beauchamp as it sometimes, we may say often, happens was his intimate friend.
  波尚的主张虽然与那家报纸的编辑正好相反，可是他们倒是亲密的朋友，这原是常有的事。
• I have lately vented and publicly asserted divers wicked, blasphemous, and Atheistical positions professing that I gloried to be an Hobbist and an Atheist.
  我在最近的讲课中一直宣扬并公开断言各种邪念，对神明的亵渎，以及强调无神论的地位，我非常荣幸成为霍布斯主义的无神论者。