take the pledge
宣读承诺书,宣誓,宣读誓言,宣读承诺
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Definitions
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- : a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
- : something delivered as security for the payment of a debt or fulfillment of a promise, and subject to forfeiture on failure to pay or fulfill the promise.
- : the state of being given or held as security: to put a thing in pledge.
- : Law. the act of delivering goods, property, etc., to another for security.the resulting legal relationship.
- : something given or regarded as a security.
- : a person accepted for membership in a club, fraternity, or sorority, but not yet formally approved.
- : an assurance of support or goodwill conveyed by drinking a person's health; a toast.
- : Obsolete. a hostage.a person who becomes bail or surety for another.
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pledged, pledg·ing.
- : to bind by or as if by a pledge: to pledge hearers to secrecy.
- : to promise solemnly: to pledge one's support.
- : to give or deposit as a pledge; pawn.
- : to stake, as one's honor.
- : to secure by a pledge; give a pledge for.
- : to accept as a pledge for club, fraternity, or sorority membership.
- : to drink a health or toast to.
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pledged, pledg·ing.
- : to make or give a pledge: to pledge for someone.
- : to drink a pledge; toast someone's health, success, etc.
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Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
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And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"
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Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
Wycliffe translates the Vulgate: “And it as a modir onourid schal meete hym, and as a womman fro virgynyte schal take him.”
But it was necessary to take Silan, which the rebels hastened to strengthen, closely followed up by the Spaniards.
And this summer it seemed to her that she never would be able to take proper care of her nestful of children.