assert
英 [?'s??t]美[?'s?t]
- vt. 維護，堅持；斷言；主張；聲稱
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詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?asserts;過去式:?asserted;過去分詞:?asserted;現在分詞:?asserting;
中文詞源
assert 斷言
前綴as- 同ad-. 詞根ser, 連結，見series. 原指把手放在奴隸頭上，宣稱對奴隸所有權。 -t, 過去分詞格。
英文詞源
- assert
- assert: [17] Assert comes ultimately from Latin asserere, which meant literally ‘join oneself to something’. It was a compound verb formed from the prefix ad- ‘to’ and serere ‘join’ (source of English series and serial), and it came to take on various metaphorical connotations: if one ‘joined oneself to’ a particular thing, one ‘declared one’s right to’ it, and if one ‘joined oneself to’ a particular point of view, one ‘maintained’ it, or ‘claimed’ it.
The verb was used in both these senses when English acquired it, from the Latin past participial stem assert-, but the former had more or less died out by the end of the 18th century.
=> serial, series - assert (v.)
- c. 1600, "declare," from Latin assertus, past participle of asserere "claim, maintain, affirm" (see assertion). Related: Asserted; asserting. To assert oneself "stand up for one's rights" is recorded from 1879.
雙語例句
- 1. Mr. Helm plans to assert that the bill violates the First Amendment.
- 赫爾姆先生打算聲明該法案違反了憲法第一修正案。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The defendants, who continue to assert their innocence, are expected to appeal.
- 各被告仍然堅稱無辜，預計會提起上訴。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. She continued to assert that she was innocent.
- 她仍然堅稱自己無辜。
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. To assert this is to denigrate the effectiveness of the police.
- 堅持這一點就是貶低警方的辦事能力.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. The enemy will invariably seek opportunities to assert himself.
- 敵人是一定要尋找機會表現他們自己的.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
