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

• 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。
• For decades the storage disk providers have been professing the death of tape.
  存储磁盘供应商十几年来一直信奉磁带已死。
• 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。
• Professing or exhibiting a strict, traditional sense of virtue and morality; high-minded.
  尽责的，孝敬的带有或表现出严格的传统道德思想的；心性高的。
• Why, even the professing church is such that to follow the LORD fully within its bounds is very difficult.
  凭良心说，即使在教会中，要找出那些真正跟随耶稣，完全遵行祂旨意的人也很难。
• 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。
• He saw no reason why slaves professing Christianity should be freed.
  他看不出有什么理由要让信奉基督教的奴隶们获得自由。
• In the late1930s," Dallas Theological Seminary, though strongly professing to be a Presbyterian institution, was being severed from the conservative Presbyterian splinter movement. "
  在1930年代下半，“达拉斯神学院，虽然强烈的承认自己是一个长老会的神学院，但是却与保守派长老会的分离运动切割。”
• The man was still professing his innocence.
  那人仍在表白自己的无辜。