| 单词 | profess |
| 释义 | profess (once / 63 pages) 1v 2v To profess is to declare something, often insincerely. Your joy on the last day of school might lead you to profess that you'll truly miss seeing all the people who annoyed you all year. You can profess something and mean it, but more often the verb profess is used when someone lies about their true feelings. You might profess your love of your grandmother's tuna casserole, or profess that you never bite your fingernails, but you're just saying what you think people want to hear. The original meaning of profess described taking religious vows, and came from the Latin word professus, having declared publicly. WORD FAMILYprofess: professed, professes, professing, profession+/professed: professedly/profession: professional, professions/professional: nonprofessional, professionalise, professionalism, professionalize, professionally, professionals, semiprofessional, unprofessional/professionalise: professionalisation, professionalised/professionalism: professionalisms/professionalize: professionalization, professionalized, professionalizes, professionalizing/semiprofessional: semiprofessionals/unprofessional: unprofessionally USAGE EXAMPLESBefore Sunday’s game against the Jets, Bush professed unconcern about his ignominious mark. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) It is an ambition that would involve the company in direct negotiations with a Communist Party that the president-elect professes to fundamentally distrust. Washington Post(Dec 26, 2016) Instead it will reinforce Israelis’ mistrust of the U.N., thus eroding the Security Council’s capacity to contribute to the peace it professes to advance. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) 1 1v confess one's faith in, or allegiance to The terrorists professed allegiance to their country he professes to be a Communist Hyper declare state emphatically and authoritatively 2v state freely The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades Hyper declare state emphatically and authoritatively 3v admit (to a wrongdoing) Syn|Hypo|Hyper concede, confess fess up, make a clean breast of, own up admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error acknowledge, admit declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of 4v state insincerely He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt Syn|Hyper pretend claim assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing 5v receive into a religious order or congregation Hyper accept, admit, take, take on admit into a group or community 6v take vows, as in religious order 2she professed herself as a nun Hypo|Hyper take the veil become a nun vow make a vow; promise v practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about She professes organic chemistry Hyper claim assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing |
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