profess

英 [pr?'fes] 美[pr?'f?s]

反義詞

CET6+TEM8低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

第三人稱單數(shù):?professes;過去式:?professed;過去分詞:?professed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?professing;

profess 宣稱，聲稱，表明，信奉

pro-,向前，在前，-fess,說話，告知，詞源同confess,prophecy,phone.引申詞義公開宣稱，聲稱等。

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 ‘a(chǎn)cknowledge, 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.

1. Why do organisations profess that they care?: 為什么機(jī)構(gòu)都謊稱自己對(duì)此很關(guān)心？

4. I don't profess expert knowledge of / to be an expert in this subject.: 我并不自詡對(duì)這一問題內(nèi)行[是這一問題的專家].

5. I don't profess to be an expert on that subject.: 我不自認(rèn)為是那個(gè)問題的專家.