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。
• The Yuan expensive Ren professes that the scholarship of the award will watch adjustment with the polity financial status from now on.
  袁贵仁表示，今后奖助学金将会随政府财力状况动态调整。
• One who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature.
  对艺术品和自然的美表现出敏感的人。
• He professes a great dislike for me.
  他声言十分讨厌我。
• He professes himself to be sad but doesn't look it.
  他自称感到悲伤，但外表却看不出来。
• The Author of our religion everywhere professes himself the wretch's friend.
  我们宗教之主到处都说过，他是世上可怜人的真朋友。
• Four days later, back in his Munich offices and more relaxed, he again professes himself happy with the deal, which gives Allianz a 30 per cent share of the enlarged Commerzbank as well as a larger asset management business.
  4天后，回到慕尼黑办公室的迪克曼更为放松，他再次表示自己对这笔交易十分满意安联得到扩大后德国商业银行30%的股份，资产管理业务规模也得到扩大。
• 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。
• Science professes to draw no conclusions but such as are based on matters of fact, things that have actually happened;
  科学声言只能对基于事实即实际上已经出现的事物的问题下结论；
• This country professes to be a true democracy
  这个国家自称是真正的民主政体。