一、详细释义:
v.
断言,宣称 [T]
例句:
Police allege that he was murdered.
警方声称他是被人谋杀的。
例句:
He alleged illness as a reason for not going to work.
他宣称有病,作为不去上班的理由。
提出 [T]
例句:
The divorce suit alleged that she had been cheating on her husband.
离婚起诉提出她对丈夫不忠。
例句:
They also alleged that the decrease in recycling would cause an increase in mining and logging in the region.
他们还提出,回收的减少将导致该地区开矿和伐木量的增加。
二、词义辨析:
assert,affirm,allege,maintain,testify,claim
这些动词均含有“断言,声称”之意。assert主观意味强,指自认为某事就是如此,而不管事实如何。affirm侧重在作出断言时表现出的坚定与不可动摇的态度。allege多指无真凭实据,不提供证据的断言或宣称。maintain与assert近义,但前者指坚决维护某种主张或观点。testify多指在法庭作证,庄严地宣称自己所说属实。claim可与assert换用,但语气弱一些,侧重指行为自己的权利提出要求他人承认。
三、参考例句:
Police allege that he was murdered.
警方声称他是被人谋杀的。
To aver is to allege in a pleading.
立证是在辩护中引例证明。
Students occasionally allege illness as the reason for absence.
学生时不时会称病缺课。
The newspapers allege that the police shot the suspect without warning.
报纸指称说警察未经示警就枪杀那位嫌疑犯。
Police allege that Ahmet on several occasions urged people in his presence to commit acts of terrorism.
警察宣称阿提拉·哈迈德多次亲自鼓动人们进行恐怖活动。
From time to time, people allege that we have created a government'back door' into our systems, but Google does not have a back door for the government to access private user data.
一直以来,人们断言我们的系统里有对政府‘开后门’,但是事实上谷歌公司根本没有所谓的后门,让政府有可乘之机。
Some allege the reporter fabricated the story, but it has already caused uproar online, where responses range from derision to expressions of real or exaggerated jealousy of the young man's good luck.
有些人指出这则消息是媒体造价,但无论如何这则消息已经在网上造成一片哗然,有人嘲笑,有人假装嫉妒,也有人真的嫉妒。