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

• But she also swears like a trooper and does not care what people think.
  她有时用也像骑兵一样的骂人的语气，也不在乎别人怎么看。
• "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。”
• But if he swears because he has anger or other issues, it is another story.
  但如果他的咒骂是出于愤怒或其他问题，这就是另一回事了。
• And he who swears by heaven swears by God's throne and by the one who sits on it.
  人指着天起誓，就是指着神的宝座和那坐在上面的起誓。
• My father swears by whisky as a cure for a cold.
  我父亲相信威士忌酒是治疗感冒的良方。
• You say,'If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing;
  你们说，凡指着殿起誓的，这算不得什么。
• He swears by taking a cold bath every morning, and says he has never been ill.
  他极相信每天早上洗冷水澡的好处，还说他从来不生病。
• 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。
• The old woman swears her copy's authentic.
  老太太发誓她那本是真的。
• 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。