| 单词 | vow |
| 释义 | vow I. 1. a. < make a vow to give up smoking > specifically < makes vow … nevermore to give the assay of arms against your Majesty — Shakespeare > b. < exchange marriage vows > 2. a. obsolete < the vast treasures of the abbey … crucifixes, and vows, crowns and reliquaries — Thomas Gray > b. 3. < it is customary for a song of lamentation to close with a vow of gratitude and praise — E.A.Leslie > II. transitive verb 1. a. < vowed never to leave each other — American Guide Series: Texas > < leaders vow … filibuster won't derail program — Wall Street Journal > < when a man vows a vow to the Lord … he shall not break his word — Num 30:2(Revised Standard Version) > b. < with rhetorical swagger … vowing the death of an aristocrat — F.J.Mather > 2. < creatures of the Devil, vowed to idolatry — Nevil Shute > < virgins vowed to Heaven — Alfred Austin > < his country … was vowed to other quests than that of the Holy Grail — Clifton Fadiman > intransitive verb < the hall was all in tumult — some vowing, and some protesting — Alfred Tennyson > III. < I vow there's a heap of stars out tonight — Elizabeth M. Roberts > IV. chiefly Scotland — used to express an emphatic degree (as of surprise or admiration) < it's long since I saw you, and vow! ye're grown gaudy and grand — William Nicholson > |
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