profess

C1 大学 FREQ #28796 ★☆☆☆☆

vt. 声称, 以...为业, 伪称, 讲授 vi. 表白, 承认, 当教授

发音

UK /pɹəˈfɛs/

其它

professed professes 三单 professes professest professeth professing profest professing 现在分词 professed 过去式 professed 过去分词

动词

自称；公开表示；宣称信奉；正式准予加入

动词

声称；承认；当教授

v. C1

1.

To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.

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2.

To declare oneself (to be something).
3.

To declare; to assert, affirm.

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4.

To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.

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5.

To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).

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6.

To work as a professor of; to teach.

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7.

To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).

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动词

From Old French professer, and its source, the participle stem of Latin profitērī, from pro- + fatērī (“to confess, acknowledge”).

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