profess
vt. 聲稱; 宣稱; 公開表明; 信奉
If you profess to do or have something, you claim that you do it or have it, often when you do not.
She professed to hate her nickname...
她自稱痛恨自己的外號。
Why do organisations profess that they care?...
為什麼機構都謊稱自己對此很關心?
If you profess a feeling, opinion, or belief, you express it.
He professed to be content with the arrangement...
他對這個安排表示滿意。
Bacher professed himself pleased with the Indian tour.
巴奇爾表示對印度之行很滿意。
1. practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about;
2. confess one's faith in, or allegiance to;
3. admit, make a clean breast of;
4. state freely;
5. receive into a religious order or congregation
6. take vows, as in religious order;
7. state insincerely;
They have become what they profess to scorn.
他們成了自己曾聲稱看不起的那種人.
I don't profess to be profound; but I lay claim to common sense.
我當然不能說我看人多麼深刻, 但是普通的情理,我總可以說還懂得吧.
Many profess to have supreme knowledge because, thereby, they will easily earn their livelihood.
很多都表示擁有至高無尚的知識,因為這樣他們就可以很容易地找到生計.
" How does it feel to have a guy profess his undying love to you? "
“ 有人對你說愛你致死不渝時,你是什麼感覺 呢 ? ”
She is going to profess modern languages.
她打算教授現代語.