profess
英 [pr?'fes]
美[pr?'f?s]
- vt. 自稱(chēng)；公開(kāi)表示；宣稱(chēng)信奉；正式準(zhǔn)予加入
- vi. 聲稱(chēng)；承認(rèn)；當(dāng)教授
CET6+TEM8低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱(chēng)單數(shù):?professes;過(guò)去式:?professed;過(guò)去分詞:?professed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?professing;
中文詞源
profess 宣稱(chēng)，聲稱(chēng)，表明，信奉
pro-,向前，在前，-fess,說(shuō)話(huà)，告知，詞源同confess,prophecy,phone.引申詞義公開(kāi)宣稱(chēng)，聲稱(chēng)等。
英文詞源
- profess
- profess: [14] Profess comes from prōfessus, the past participle of Latin prōfitērī ‘declare publicly’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix prō- ‘forth, in public’ and fatērī ‘a(chǎn)cknowledge, confess’ (a relative of English fable, fame, and fate and source also of confess). A professor [14] is etymologically someone who ‘makes a public claim’ to knowledge in a particular field; and someone’s profession [13] is the area of activity in which they ‘profess’ a skill or competence.
=> confess, fable, fame, fate - profess (v.)
- early 14c., "to take a vow" (in a religious order), a back-formation from profession or else from Old French profes, from Medieval Latin professus "avowed," literally "having declared publicly," past participle of Latin profiteri "declare openly, testify voluntarily, acknowledge, make public statement of," from pro- "forth" (see pro-) + fateri (past participle fassus) "acknowledge, confess," akin to fari "to speak," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)). Meaning "declare openly" first recorded 1520s, "a direct borrowing of the sense from Latin" [Barnhart]. Related: Professed; professing.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. Why do organisations profess that they care?
- 為什么機(jī)構(gòu)都謊稱(chēng)自己對(duì)此很關(guān)心？
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. I profess that I was surprised at the news.
- 我承認(rèn)這消息使我驚訝.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 3. They have become what they profess to scorn.
- 他們成了自己曾聲稱(chēng)看不起的那種人.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 4. I don't profess expert knowledge of / to be an expert in this subject.
- 我并不自詡對(duì)這一問(wèn)題內(nèi)行[是這一問(wèn)題的專(zhuān)家].
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 5. I don't profess to be an expert on that subject.
- 我不自認(rèn)為是那個(gè)問(wèn)題的專(zhuān)家.
來(lái)自辭典例句