affirm/allege/assert.导航词义：断言

1. affirm:v. 断言…属实，确认.指公开宣称某事属实，强调坚信不疑的态度。

He affirmed the rumors of a pay increase.

他证实了涨薪的传闻。

She affirmed that he told the truth.

她确认他讲的是事实。

2. allege:v. 断言,宣称.尤指在未证实的情况下宣称某事属实，或声称某人行事错误或违法，常用被动语态。

It was alleged that Jack had struck Mr. Wilson on the head.

据称杰克打了威尔逊先生的头。

The thief alleged that the police forced him to make a false confession.

小偷声称警方逼迫他作假口供。

3. assert:v. 宣称；断定.指断然声称某种结论，多为主观判断，往往并无证据，或有证据但不一定确实。

French movies, he asserted, are the best in the world.

他坚称法国电影是世界上最好的。

He asserted that he was an honest man.

他宣称自己是诚实的。

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1·I was determined to assert my authority from the beginning.

我决心一开始就维护我的权威。《牛津词典》

2·Critics of your book assert that you're trying to force radical changes on the entire country.

批评你的书的人断言，你试图迫使整个国家进行彻底的改变。

3·Mergers and acquisitions remain common, and bidders continue to assert that their objectives are economic ones.

兼并和收购仍然很常见，而且竞标者继续声称他们的目标是经济目标。

4·We just have to be very, very careful especially when we assert with certainly the association of a particular gene and disease.

我们只是必须非常非常小心，尤其当我们坚定断言一特定基因与疾病的结合。

5·It doesn't help that building a big, powerful dam has become a symbol of achi evement for nations and people striving to assert themselves.

对于那些努力维护自己权利的国家和人民来说，建造一座巨大而强大的大坝已经成为了阿齐王朝的象征，但这并没有帮助他们。

6·Frazier and Mosteller assert that medical research could be improved by a move toward larger, simpler clinical trials of medical treatments.

弗雷泽和莫斯蒂勒断言，医学研究可以通过向更大、更简单的医疗临床试验的方向发展而得到改进。

7·It doesn't help that building a big, powerful dam has become a symbol of achi evement for nations and people striving to assert themselves.

对于那些努力维护自己权利的国家和人民来说，建造一座巨大而强大的大坝已经成为了阿齐王朝的象征，但这并没有帮助他们。

8·Cognitive psychologists assert that our behavior is influenced by our values, by the ways in which we interpret our situations and by choice.

认知心理学家们断言，我们的行为受我们的价值观、我们了解自己处境的方式和我们的选择的影响。

9·She continued to assert her innocence.

她仍然坚称自己无辜。《牛津词典》

10·She continued to assert that she was innocent.

她仍然坚称自己无辜。《牛津词典》

断言

1·Frazier and Mosteller assert that medical research could be improved by a move toward larger, simpler clinical trials of medical treatments.

弗雷泽和莫斯蒂勒断言，医学研究可以通过向更大、更简单的医疗临床试验的方向发展而得到改进。

2·Cognitive psychologists assert that our behavior is influenced by our values, by the ways in which we interpret our situations and by choice.

认知心理学家们断言，我们的行为受我们的价值观、我们了解自己处境的方式和我们的选择的影响。

3·We just have to be very, very careful when we assert with certainly the association of a particular gene.

我们只是不得不非常非常小心，尤其当我们坚定断言一特定基因(与疾病)的结合。

4·If you fail to avoid high inequality, you will need more prisons and more police, they assert.

“如果不能消除这种高度的不平等，你们将需要更多的监狱和警察，”他们断言。

5·One difference is that you can assert, for instance, that the plan-driven approach will extend our project duration from twelve to fourteen weeks, an increase of two weeks.

区别之一就是您能够断言，例如计划驱动的方法将把您的项目周期从十二周扩展到十四周，增加了两周的时间。

维护

1·I was determined to assert my authority from the beginning.

我决心一开始就维护我的权威。《牛津词典》

2·It doesn't help that building a big, powerful dam has become a symbol of achi evement for nations and people striving to assert themselves.

对于那些努力维护自己权利的国家和人民来说，建造一座巨大而强大的大坝已经成为了阿齐王朝的象征，但这并没有帮助他们。

3·It doesn't help that building a big, powerful dam has become a symbol of achi evement for nations and people striving to assert themselves.

对于那些努力维护自己权利的国家和人民来说，建造一座巨大而强大的大坝已经成为了阿齐王朝的象征，但这并没有帮助他们。

4·Only after women have been able to assert their rights in all spheres of society and culture have they been able to exert their rights in divorce court, but that is a subject for another article.

我认为，唯独当女性可以在社会和文化的各个层面都能有效维护自身权益的时候，他们才有可能在离婚案上实施自己的权利。但是为了不偏离主题，我在此不作详细讨论。

5·The entertainment industry is prepared to assert its rights aggressively and most people knew that before today.

娱乐产业做好准备积极地维护其权利并且多数人以前就知道这一点。

主张

1·He appears to assert the superiority of scientific over non-scientific culture with a confidence sometimes bordering on the arrogance for which he criticised others.

他似乎主张科学对非科学文化具有优越性，其中的自信有时候近乎他所批评的其他人的傲慢自大。

2·Russia, a signatory in 1997, already has used the treaty's legal authority to assert its rights to mineral riches on its continental shelf in the Arctic.

于1997年签署该条约的俄罗斯已经开始利用条约赋予的合法权力来主张其对自己部分北冰洋大陆架矿产资源的所有权。

3·If you enter a meeting with your enthusiasm low, ignore it.Shake hands confidently; reply definitively to questions; assert the value of your ideas and proposals.

如果你以热忱的态度参加会议，那就别再谈这项建议了，自信地和他人握手，以明确的言词回答问题，坚定地主张你的观念和建议所具有的价值。

4·The European Union must assert a common position and take the lead on this.

欧盟必须主张共一个立场，并发挥带头作用。

5·Inevitably some images proved so appropriate to the Romantic endeavour to tame chaos, to assert an ideal order, that they recur in the work of many poets.

不可避免地使一些图像证明适合于浪漫的努力驯服了混乱，来主张一个理想的秩序，这曾经在许多诗人的作品里重演。

坚持

1·Thus one cannot rationally assert that everyone should break their promises and hence, argued Kant, we have a duty as rational creatures to keep them.

因此一个人不能在理性上坚持认为每个人都应当毁约，因此正如康德所言，我们应当像理性生物那样遵守约定。

2·What is' assert 'in a kernel module?

什么是'坚持'在一个内核模块？

3·Your personal ambitions and drive to assert yourself and make an impact on the world meet with considerable opposition now.

目前，你想坚持自己的权利和影响世界的雄心壮志遇到了相当大的反对力量。

4·You need to assert yourself more.

你需要进一步坚持自己的想法。

声称

1·At the same time, the manager should step in and assert authority only when required, which should be rarely.

与此同时，经理应该只有在需要时插手并声称权力，这应该很少发生。

2·Despite its recent setback in Somalia, it still wants to assert its claim to be a regional player.

尽管最近在索马里受挫，但厄仍希望声称其成为区域游戏者的要求。

3·But people who take the opposite opinion assert that the one who does not know how to use computers becomes more and more disadvantaged.

但是持相反意见的人声称不会使用电脑的人会越来越不利。

4·The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or imply endorsement of any Modified Version.

文件的作者和出版者并不由此授权，而给予允许使用他们的名字以为了或经由声称或暗示任何修改版本背书为自己所应得的方式而获得名声的权利。

5·More importantly, Microsoft announced today that it will not assert its patents against individual, non-commercial developers.

更重要的是，微软今天宣布它将不会声称它反对个人和非商业开发者的专利。

宣称

1·The defendants, who continue to assert their innocence, are expected to appeal.

那些继续宣称其清白的被告预计会上诉。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Council members assert that young people can start businesses even if they have little or no money or experience. But whether those start-ups last is another matter.

委员会成员宣称，年轻人即使只有少量或没有资金和经验也可以创业，但创业之后能支撑多久就是另外一个问题了。

3·Their work is read by millions of Internet users, leading some to assert that in the future all writing, even reading, in China will take place in cyberspace.

有人宣称未来中国所有的写作，甚至是阅读，都将发生在网络上。

4·Advocates assert that growing genetically altered crops can be kinder to the environment and that eating foods from those plants is perfectly safe.

支持者宣称，种植基因改造作物对环境伤害较小，而食用这种农作物制成的食品也完全无害。

5·But there are many products which assert using the style of MPEG4 only apply it to transit the other format of video picture to MPEG4 format in the video stores phase.

现在很多的宣称具有MPEG4压缩格式的监视产品，都只是在视频存储阶段采用软件实现视频流格式的转换。

(1)assert oneself坚持自己的权利或意见