Affirm

(verb.) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; 'Before God I swear I am innocent'.

(verb.) say yes to.

整理:威廉

• This the Muses affirm to be the stock from which discord has sprung, wherever arising; and this is their answer to us. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• How dare you affirm that, Jane Eyre? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Play tends to reproduce and affirm the crudities, as well as the excellencies, of surrounding adult life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• You are further aware that most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I affirm that the remedy which that admirable lady has proposed is the only remedy that will spare you the horrors of public scandal. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• So-and-so-and-so constitute a play, they affirm,--this thing doesn't meet the requirements, so away with it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• And what does the judge affirm to be the life which is next, and the pleasure which is next? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Meantime, Mr. Rochester affirmed I was wearing him to skin and bone, and threatened awful vengeance for my present conduct at some period fast coming. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I was a _lusus naturae_, she affirmed, as a village schoolmistress: she was sure my previous history, if known, would make a delightful romance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• No, I sent for him: but you know, you affirmed that I might do this with safety, since you were sure he would not obey my summons. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I don't blush--I never _do_ blush, affirmed she, while another eddy from the heart sent up its scarlet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• An appeal was taken in the above suit to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and on October 4, 1892, the decree of the lower court was affirmed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It would do, I affirmed with some disdain, perfectly well. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• God's vengeance, he said, was preparing for me, and affirmed that in a vision of the night he had beheld the manner and the instrument of my doom. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• In speaking of education Plato rather startles us by affirming that a child must be trained in falsehood first and in truth afterwards. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• A man that is ungrateful to his benefactor, in a manner affirms, that he never received any favours from him. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• You go out to gossip, he affirms; you come home to read and reflect. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Moore says so, and affirms he wants nobody. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• That which he affirms and loves one day--a little latter he turns on it in a fury of destruction. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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