professes

英 [prəˈfesɪz]

美 [prəˈfesɪz]

v.  妄称; 伪称; 声称; 宣称; 公开表明; 信奉，信仰(某一宗教)
profess的第三人称单数

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

双语例句

• She professes not to be interested in money.
  她声称对钱不感兴趣。
• He professes to be the inventor of this machine.
  他冒充是该机器的发明者。
• How could I make such a proposition, especially to a woman who always professes to be so entirely disinterested?
  我怎么能提出这样的一项建议呢，特别是对一个总自认为对金钱毫无兴趣的女人？
• The company put me in touch with a "quintessential mistress" named Jackie ( at least she wanted to be named Jackie for the purposes of this column) who professes total satisfaction with Ashley Madison.
  公司安排我和一个叫Jackie的“典型情妇”接触（至少因为这个专栏的目的，她希望叫Jackie），她对阿什利·麦迪逊网站完全满意。
• He professes a great dislike for me.
  他声言十分讨厌我。
• The words of the sign of the Cross include the doctrine of the Holy Trinity; the action professes that our Lord Jesus Christ died nailed to a cross to redeem mankind.
  圣号经的言语，包含天主三位一体的道理，画十字，表明吾主耶稣为救赎人类，被钉十字架上死。
• Though he professes not to speak in complete sentences unlike his wife, he says, who can talk in perfect paragraphs on any occasion and enjoins me to clean up the syntax of whatever I quote him saying, it turns out to be unnecessary.
  虽然他自称连句子也说不完整他表示，这一点和他妻子不一样，她有本事在任何场合出口成章并嘱咐我在引述他的话时梳理好句法，但事实证明，这是不必要的。
• Father, red sorghum claims to cure your fever; the age-old walnut tree professes.
  父亲，红高粱说要治好您的发烧，老核桃树说。
• Even a bride who professes delight with her groom's boyishness'will tire of being the only adult in the family if her husband doesn't grow up soon.
  甚至一个为其新郎的“孩子气”而表示高兴的新娘，如果她丈夫不尽快成长成熟，她也会因为她是家中唯一的大人而厌倦的。
• In the production notes, Mr. Tsai professes to have become tired of cinema.
  在拍摄笔记中，蔡明亮承认自己已经厌倦了电影。