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affirm

/uh-furm/US // əˈfɜrm //UK // (əˈfɜːm) //

申明,肯定,确认,申报

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to state or assert positively; maintain as true: to affirm one's loyalty to one's country; He affirmed that all was well.
    • : to confirm or ratify: The appellate court affirmed the judgment of the lower court.
    • : to assert solemnly: He affirmed his innocence.
    • : to express agreement with or commitment to; uphold; support: to affirm human rights.
    • : to support by giving approval, recognition, or encouragement: She described the unhappy memory of her father, who had neither disciplined nor affirmed her.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Law. to state something solemnly before a court or magistrate, but without oath.to ratify and accept a voidable transaction. to determine that the action of the lower court shall stand.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdeclare the truth of something
Forms: affirmed, affirming, affirms

Examples

  • A tech company is affirming that automating certain decisions may not, in fact, be the smart thing to do — tacitly acknowledging that removing human agency can generate harm.

  • As a scholar whose research focuses on the ethics of communication and as a yoga teacher, I’m interested in how people use rituals and rhetoric to affirm their interconnectedness with one another – and with the world.

  • First, they needed to affirm that things were indeed quieter.

  • We believe that it’s every American’s responsibility to do what they can to affirm, safeguard, and advance the health of our democracy.

  • PFLAG envisions a world where diversity is celebrated and all people are affirmed, valued, and respected.

  • But Scott, in taking the parlance of the street to the SportsCenter desk, helped affirm its ascendance.

  • Advocates claimed that it helped to preserve virtue and to affirm the application of Sharia law.

  • What is worse, it does so only to affirm sexist stereotypes.

  • So when we progress, when we affirm ourselves, we should not threaten them.

  • I believe this because these ideals that we affirm are true.

  • To fix on any one stage in such an evolution, detach it, affirm it, is to wrest a true scripture to its destruction.

  • For my part, I scarcely know what to say; inasmuch as I do not care either to affirm or deny a thing of which I have no proof.

  • Some affirm that he wrote to please royalty, but if so why did he not condemn the custom to appease the wrath of a sapient king.

  • In my opinion, the situation of Candy is most beautiful, but many affirm that it is too near the mountains, and lies in a pit.

  • Many travellers affirm that the Taj-Mehal produces a magical effect when lighted by the moon.