profess

• vt. 自称；公开表示；宣称信奉；正式准予加入
• vi. 声称；承认；当教授

pro-,向前，在前，-fess,说话，告知，词源同confess,prophecy,phone.引申词义公开宣称，声称等。

1. practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about;

"She professes organic chemistry"

2. confess one's faith in, or allegiance to;

"The terrorists professed allegiance to the Muslim faith"

"he professes to be a Communist"

3. admit, make a clean breast of;

"She confessed that she had taken the money"

4. state freely;

"The teacher professed that he was not generous when it came to giving good grades"

5. receive into a religious order or congregation

6. take vows, as in religious order;

"she professed herself as a nun"

7. state insincerely;

"He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"

"She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"

"She pretends to be an expert on wine"

profess

profess: [14] Profess comes from prōfessus, the past participle of Latin prōfitērī ‘declare publicly’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix prō- ‘forth, in public’ and fatērī ‘acknowledge, confess’ (a relative of English fable, fame, and fate and source also of confess). A professor [14] is etymologically someone who ‘makes a public claim’ to knowledge in a particular field; and someone’s profession [13] is the area of activity in which they ‘profess’ a skill or competence.
=> confess, fable, fame, fate

profess (v.)

early 14c., "to take a vow" (in a religious order), a back-formation from profession or else from Old French profes, from Medieval Latin professus "avowed," literally "having declared publicly," past participle of Latin profiteri "declare openly, testify voluntarily, acknowledge, make public statement of," from pro- "forth" (see pro-) + fateri (past participle fassus) "acknowledge, confess," akin to fari "to speak," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)). Meaning "declare openly" first recorded 1520s, "a direct borrowing of the sense from Latin" [Barnhart]. Related: Professed; professing.

She still professes her innocence.

她仍然声称自己无辜。

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I don't profess to be an expert in this subject.

我不敢自诩为这方面的专家。

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He professed his admiration for their work.

他表示钦佩他们的工作。

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She professed herself satisfied with the progress so far.

她表示对目前为止的进度很满意。

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to profess Christianity/Islam/Judaism

信仰基督教 / 伊斯兰教 / 犹太教

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She professed to hate her nickname...

她自称痛恨自己的外号。

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Why do organisations profess that they care?...

为什么机构都谎称自己对此很关心？

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He professed to be content with the arrangement...

他对这个安排表示满意。

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Bacher professed himself pleased with the Indian tour.

巴奇尔表示对印度之行很满意。

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They have become what they profess to scorn.

他们成了自己曾声称看不起的那种人.

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I don't profess to be profound; but I lay claim to common sense.

我当然不能说我看人多么深刻, 但是普通的情理,我总可以说还懂得吧.

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Many profess to have supreme knowledge because, thereby, they will easily earn their livelihood.

很多都表示拥有至高无尚的知识,因为这样他们就可以很容易地找到生计.

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" How does it feel to have a guy profess his undying love to you? "

“ 有人对你说爱你致死不渝时,你是什么感觉 呢 ? ”

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She is going to profess modern languages.

她打算教授现代语.

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She likes to profess medicine.

她喜欢做医生.

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All men shall be free to profess.

任何人都应该有自由去宣说.

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I don't profess to know anything about music.

我没有自称懂得音乐.

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I don't profess expert knowledge of / to be an expert in this subject.

我并不自诩对这一问题内行[是这一问题的专家].

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Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live.

然而教授是可羡的,因为教授的生活是可羡的.

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Religion: Almost all of the profess Islamic.

宗教: 大多数人信奉伊斯兰教.

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I will not profess my bravery.

我不想夸耀我的勇气.

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Religion: Almost all of the inhabitants profess Christianity and Roman Catholic.

宗教: 几乎所有居民都信奉基督教和罗马天主教.

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I don't profess to be a scholar.

我并没自称是学者.

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How does it feel to have a profess his undying love to you?

有人对你说爱你致死不渝时,你是什么感觉 呢 ?

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Religion: Most inhabitants of Moldova profess the Orthodox Eastern Church.

宗教: 多数人信奉东正教.

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Boys arriving in the workplace will profess themselves confident after the first hour.

刚进入职场的男孩仅用一小时,就会展现出自己的自信.

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Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

23也要坚守我们所承认的指望, 不至摇动.因为那应许我们的是信实的.

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He used to profess law.

他过去曾做律师.

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