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vowed

/vou/US // vaʊ //UK // (vaʊ) //

发过誓的,发誓,发过誓,发誓的

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a solemn promise, pledge, or personal commitment: marriage vows; a vow of secrecy.
    • : a solemn promise made to a deity or saint committing oneself to an act, service, or condition.
    • : a solemn or earnest declaration.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make a vow of; promise by a vow, as to God or a saint: to vow a crusade or a pilgrimage.
    • : to pledge or resolve solemnly to do, make, give, observe, etc.: They vowed revenge.
    • : to declare solemnly or earnestly; assert emphatically: She vowed that she would take the matter to court.
    • : to dedicate or devote by a vow: to vow oneself to the service of God.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make a vow.
    • : to make a solemn or earnest declaration.

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Examples

  • On one of his visits to Moscow he thinks was in 1995 prior to moving there he and Yaroslav exchanged vows that the two considered to be equivalent to a marriage in Pushkinskaya Square, a park-like plaza in downtown Moscow, John told the Blade.

  • Three years into that vow, with losses still running about $1 million a month, Prospect’s warnings that it wanted to sell or close the hospital spurred state lawmakers to hand the company an “emergency” $15 million grant.

  • Ten years before, when we took our vows the first time, they mattered mostly just to the two of us.

  • Perhaps because we love our children so fiercely, and because we know better now what marriage means, those vows have only grown in significance.

  • This time, those vows mattered also for two small people who are like our hearts outside our bodies.

  • Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

  • She vowed to repay the money—no official word, however, on whether she ever did that.

  • In fact, I publicly vowed to abstain from The Ball in 2012, but professional responsibilities and curiosity got the better of me.

  • Bohac vowed to that when he came back next year there would be no confusion about any Christmas tree or Santa aprons.

  • So was the importance of protest itself, which he vowed to protect from the heavy-handed policies employed by his predecessors.

  • The exile and the maiden, in short, fell in love with each other, and they mutually vowed never to be parted but by force.

  • He vowed he was taking even better care of himself than usual, but his chest is bad again.

  • How have the contributions of the faithful, for this end, been merely offered to men, but not vowed openly to God?

  • All that God requires of man, and consequently the use of all means appointed for glorifying his name, ought to be vowed.

  • We are warranted to maintain that what was Covenanted before, no less than it should be performed, should be vowed again.