profess
/pɹəˈfɛs/ 动词 C1中文： 声称、表白、信奉
- To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
- To declare oneself (to be something). · They've professed themselves delighted with the results.
- To declare; to assert, affirm. · Having professed her belief in the remedy, she had little choice but to try it.
- To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity. · Many profess to despise what secretly they hunger after.
- To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).
- To work as a professor of; to teach.
He/she/it professes · 过去式 professed · 过去分词 professed · -ing形式 professing
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- 过去式
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- 过去分词
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- -ing形式
- professing
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Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of those who consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for everybody.”
Hope was over, entirely over; and when Jane could attend to the rest of the letter, she found little, except the professed affection of the writer, that could give her any comfort.
“I shall not say that you are mistaken,” he replied, “because you could not really believe me to entertain any design of alarming you; and I have had the pleasure of your acquaintance long enough to know, that you find great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which, in fact, are not your own.”
Bingley was everything that was charming, except the professed lover of her daughter.
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