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·The claimants allege that manufacturers failed to warn doctors that their drugs should be used only in limited circumstances.

索赔人声称生产商没有警告医生他们生产的药品只能在特定的条件下使用。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·The court papers allege she may be a voyeur.

法庭文件宣称她可能是一个偷窥狂。

3·The details that police allege are horrific.

警方指控的细节非常可怕。

4·Yeah, well, I allege that you guys thoroughly suck.

好吧。我承认，你们真是彻头彻尾的烂。

5·Local Iraqi officials allege farmers have looted the oil site.

伊拉克当地官员声称农民们掠夺了油井。

6·Fees, they allege, deter potential students, especially from poor families.

他们宣称，学费吓跑了学生，尤其是哪些贫穷家庭的。

7·Police allege that he graduated from bikes to cars, then to speedboats.

警方称，他偷盗的目标也有所转变——从单车到汽车，再到快艇。

8·Yet critics in China allege this has not always made it more responsible.

然而中国的评论家宣称，这并不一定使公司变得更负责任。

9·The police allege that the man was murdered but they have given no proof.

警方声称这男子是被人谋杀的，但未提出任何证据。

10·There is some truth to these allegations, but less than the slogans allege.

这些话语有那么一部分真实成份，但是比某些标语口号宣扬的要少些。

宣称

1·The court papers allege she may be a voyeur.

法庭文件宣称她可能是一个偷窥狂。

2·Fees, they allege, deter potential students, especially from poor families.

他们宣称，学费吓跑了学生，尤其是哪些贫穷家庭的。

3·Yet critics in China allege this has not always made it more responsible.

然而中国的评论家宣称，这并不一定使公司变得更负责任。

4·Ms Park, the prosecutors allege, was an active participant in this racket, ordering her aides to help Ms Choi extract her payouts.

并且检察官还宣称，朴槿惠积极参与了这场非法勾当，命令她的助手帮助崔顺实榨取钱财。

5·Under the common counts the pleader need allege only that he is suing for unjust enrichment, for labor performed or for goods sold and delivered or services rendered but not paid for.

根据一般诉讼理由，原告只需宣称他所起诉主张的是（对方的）不当得利，已经付出的劳动，或已经出售并交付的货物，或已经提供服务但对方尚未支付价款。

指称

1·They allege that Maksim Bakiyev profited from the fuel-supply contracts for the base.

他们指称，马克西姆·巴基耶夫从基地的燃料供应合同中获利。

2·Throughout the day Russian officials also insisted they had only withheld 21 million cubic meters, the amount of gas they allege Ukraine had stolen from Russia since the previous day.

在一整天的时间里，俄罗斯官员还坚持说，他们只扣留了2千1百万立方米的天然气。这个数量是俄罗斯指称乌克兰前一天从俄罗斯偷走的天然气。

指控

1·The details that police allege are horrific.

警方指控的细节非常可怕。

2·The workers allege that they paid exorbitant sums to recruiters in India (up to $20, 000), who promised them green cards.

这些工人指控说他们在印度时曾付给招工公司一大笔钱（高达2万美元），后者允诺给他们办理绿卡。

断言

1·But it would be too hasty to allege such a contrast given that I didn't really know them.

不过，我并不真正了解他们，所以当下断言二人性格如该隐和亚伯那般迥异未免过于草率。

2·Media reports in Spain allege that Ancelotti could be in line for a switch to Real Madrid in the summer, but the man in question has dismissed the suggestions.

西班牙有媒体断言，安切洛蒂要在今年夏天转投皇家马德里， 这个未来存在疑问的人否认了这个说法。