professing

英 [prəˈfesɪŋ]

美 [prəˈfesɪŋ]

v.  妄称; 伪称; 声称; 宣称; 公开表明; 信奉，信仰(某一宗教)
profess的现在分词

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

英英释义

noun

• an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion
  1. a profession of disagreement
  Synonym:profession

双语例句

• Professing christianity, he had little compassion in his make-up.
  他号称信奉基督教，却没有什么慈悲心肠。
• But as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.
  而要以善行装饰自己，这才合乎称为虔敬天主的女人。
• A group of Christians; any group professing Christian doctrine or belief.
  基督教徒的团体；表明忠于基督教条或信仰的任一团体。
• It is no use professing to want zero problems with the neighbours without making a much broader effort to resolve such ancient quarrels as those with Armenia or over Cyprus.
  自称想与邻国毫无争端，和平共处，而没有做出更广泛的努力来解决与亚美尼亚或塞浦路斯的古老争议（历史遗留问题），这是没有用的。
• I'm professing that I'm weak.
  我坦白自己的软弱。
• He saw no reason why slaves professing Christianity should be freed.
  他看不出有什么理由要让信奉基督教的奴隶们获得自由。
• Religion is a universal phenomenon in the long cultural history of mankind. Most of the countries in the world are professing religion, and it is closely linked with the development of human society.
  宗教是人类历史文化上一种源远流长而普遍的现象，世界上各个国家和民族中都存在宗教，它与人类社会发展紧密相连。
• Why, even the professing church is such that to follow the LORD fully within its bounds is very difficult.
  凭良心说，即使在教会中，要找出那些真正跟随耶稣，完全遵行祂旨意的人也很难。
• All over Western and central Europe barbarian chiefs were now reigning as kings, dukes and the like, practically independent but for the most part professing some sort of shadowy allegiance to the emperor.
  在西欧和中欧各地，蛮族首领此时执掌着国王、君主以及诸如此类的大权，实际上相互独立，但是他们大多表示对皇帝某种象征性的效忠。
• In the late1930s," Dallas Theological Seminary, though strongly professing to be a Presbyterian institution, was being severed from the conservative Presbyterian splinter movement. "
  在1930年代下半，“达拉斯神学院，虽然强烈的承认自己是一个长老会的神学院，但是却与保守派长老会的分离运动切割。”