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assert oneself

/uh-surt/US // əˈsɜrt //UK // (əˈsɜːt) //

主张自己,伸张自己的权利,主张自己的,声称自己

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to state with assurance, confidence, or force; state strongly or positively; affirm; aver: He asserted his innocence of the crime.
    • : to maintain or defend.
    • : to state as having existence; affirm; postulate: to assert a first cause as necessary.

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Examples

  • Even as her business grows — Elli’s Kosher Kitchen just became the first business to receive kosher certification from the city of Abu Dhabi — Kriel continues to assert her creativity and attention to detail in the kitchen.

  • It comes just a week after the Ethiopian House of Federation declared the election as “null and void”, asserting that the poll was unconstitutional.

  • In response to ProPublica’s 2018 reporting, IBM asserted that cases like Miyoshi’s were one-offs and didn’t represent a company practice.

  • “Definitely, this is not the death of cities,” Chesky asserts.

  • Kennedy, thanking supporters, said he called Markey to concede, telling him he’s a “good man” and asserting “you have never heard me say otherwise,” according to the New York Times.

  • As leaders across the world continue to assert, the war is far from won.

  • “It certainly demonstrates their effort to re-assert themselves in the region and regain their past form,” this official added.

  • I was forced to bring two male “identity verifiers” to assert who I was, despite the fact that I carried my ID card with me.

  • Rather than a right to health care or abortion, people assert a right to access those things.

  • These suits assert, basically, that the child herself was harmed by the very fact of her own birth.

  • The well-worn aphorism of the Frenchman, “History repeats itself,” was about to assert itself.

  • The knocker appeared to hear the response, and to assert that it was quite impossible he could wait so long.

  • Quiet and good natured, when necessity arose he never failed to assert his authority.

  • It was as if the earlier, loving Lettice tried to assert itself, but was instantly driven back again.

  • Never, when advancing an opinion, assert positively that a thing "is so," but give your opinion as an opinion.