swears

英 [sweəz]

美 [swerz]

v.  咒骂; 诅咒; 说脏话; 郑重承诺; 发誓要; 表示决心要; 赌咒发誓地说; 肯定地说
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柯林斯词典

• VERB 咒骂;诅咒;说脏话
  If someoneswears, they use language that is considered to be rude or offensive, usually because they are angry.
  1. It's wrong to swear and shout...
     破口大骂是不对的。
  2. They swore at them and ran off.
     他们骂了他们后就跑掉了。
• VERB 发誓要;郑重承诺
  If youswear todo something, you promise in a serious way that you will do it.
  1. Alan swore that he would do everything in his power to help us...
     艾伦许诺要尽其所能帮助我们。
  2. We have sworn to fight cruelty wherever we find it...
     我们发誓要见恶除恶。
  3. The police are the only civil servants who have to swear allegiance to the Crown...
     警察是唯一要宣誓效忠君主的公务员。
  4. I have sworn an oath to defend her.
     我发誓要保护她。
• VERB 发誓，郑重声明，保证(所说属实)
  If you say that youswearthat something is true or that you canswearto it, you are saying very firmly that it is true.
  1. I swear I've told you all I know...
     我发誓我已经把我所知道的全都告诉你了。
  2. I swear on all I hold dear that I had nothing to do with this...
     我以身家性命担保，我和这件事无关。
  3. Behind them was a confusion of noise, perhaps even a shot, but he couldn't swear to it.
     他们身后响起一片嘈杂声，也许还有枪击声，但他不能确定。
• VERB 使发誓，使承诺(保守秘密)
  If someoneis sworn tosecrecy oris sworn tosilence, they promise another person that they will not reveal a secret.
  1. She was bursting to announce the news but was sworn to secrecy.
     她急不可待想宣布这个消息，但却发过誓要守口如瓶。
• See also:sworn

双语例句

• He swears by his dentist.
  他非常信赖他的牙医。
• "In order to save face, he swears to win in this game."
  “为了挽回了面子，他誓言要赢得这次的比赛。”
• Isabella swears that the love Edgar has for me is nothing to that she entertains for you.
  伊莎贝拉发誓说埃德加对我的爱比起她对你的爱来是不足道的。
• She swears she didn't mean to leave Nurse Ellen down there to die.
  她发誓说她并不是想把埃伦保姆丢在那里让她去死。
• She swears to wear the pearls that appear to be pears.
  她发誓要戴那些看起来像梨子的珍珠。
• Sandinsky swears he doesn't know whereScylla is, but he gives them Christina's location.
  文森特发誓称不知道“锡拉”在哪，但他给出了克里斯蒂娜的所在地。
• She swears to him that their lives are so entwined that separation is death to her.
  她对他发誓，说他们的生命已经如此紧密地结合在一起了，对她来说分离就等於死亡。
• WHEN my love swears that she is made of truth.
  我爱人发誓她满怀忠贞。
• He swears he will return one day.
  他发誓将恢复一天。
• He swears by his doctor.
  他极信任他的医生。