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

• The same thing is true of the art of enjoying Nature. one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature.
  享受大自然的艺术也是如此。对艺术品和自然的美表现出敏感的人。
• 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。
• He professes that the global economy suffers from a critical shortage of safe assets.
  他表示，安全资产的严重匮乏，令全球经济遭受打击。
• She has come with a cautious promise that Huawei will eventually reveal more about its owners, and also professes an open mind towards eventually taking the company public.
  她做出谨慎承诺：华为将最终透露更多有关其所有者的信息，并声称对于最终的上市持开放态度。
• 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。
• She professes not to be interested in money.
  她声称对钱不感兴趣。
• However, for every foreigner that professes to know something of China, there must be10,000 or more that know nothing, and the distinction between the Asian nations become blurred.
  然而对每个自称其对中国略有了解的外国人来说，还有数以万计的更多外国人多中国一无所知，而且他们对亚洲国家之间存在的差异是非常模糊。
• He has been here these two years, and will not tell who heis, or whence, but professes that he does not go by his right name.
  这两年到这里的，他从不说他是谁，或是从何而来，但却对人声称他用的名字不是他的真名。
• She professes to be a friend.
  她称自己是个朋友。
• That a historian subscribes to a political ideology does not make him a politician, any more than a historian who professes a religion is necessarily a priest.
  正如信仰宗教的史学家未必就是一名神职人员，认同某种政治意识形态的史学家也不一定会成为政客。