Avow

(verb.) admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about.

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• She did not deny, she did not avow, but looked at me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I fear it might be; I fear it was; but in that case I must avow no light share of weakness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Do you wonder that I avow this to you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• To avow before what altar I now kneel--to reveal the present idol of my soul---- You will make haste about it, if you please. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• To answer would have been to avow that the cap fitted. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It may seem less unreasonable, if I avow to you that although I don't know Mr Lightwood, I have a disagreeable association connected with him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Isidore far more than you think, or will avow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• To encourage tillage, by keeping up the price of corn, even in the most plentiful years, was the avowed end of the institution. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• A rotation of this kind seems alone a sufficient security against any practices which cannot be avowed. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The interest in both is of the very same kind: It is general, avowed, and prevails in all times and places. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Nor is it a desire of such a performance: For we may bind ourselves without such a desire, or even with an aversion, declared and avowed. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Whispers reach me of Miss Shepherd having said she wished I wouldn't stare so, and having avowed a preference for Master Jones--for Jones! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• After the tissue of social falsehoods in which she had so long moved it was refreshing to step into the open daylight of an avowed expediency. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The performance of this horrid office is even said to be the avowed business by which some people earn their subsistence. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The cool contempt of her manner irritated me into directly avowing that the purpose of my visit had not been answered yet. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• This De Grantmesnil declined, avowing himself vanquished as much by the courtesy as by the address of his opponent. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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