pro.fess

profess的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [prəˈfes, prou-]
KK音标发音： [prəˈfɛs, pro-]

profess的词性：
v.（动词）

profess的词性：
v.tr.（及物动词）

1. To affirm openly; declare or claim:
公开承认；宣布或声称：

“I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections”(William Harvey)
“我确认在学习和讲授解剖学中都不能靠书本，而应靠解剖标本”(威廉·哈维)

2. To make a pretense of; pretend:
自称…；假装：

“He professed to despise everything that had happened since 1850”(Louis Auchincloss)
“他自称厌恶自1850年以来发生的一切事情”(路易斯·奥金克洛斯)

3. To claim skill in or knowledge of:
执…为业：声称精通某一技术或知识：

profess medicine.
行医

4. To affirm belief in:
宣称信仰：

profess Catholicism.
宣称信仰天主教

5. To receive into a religious order or congregation.
接受入教：接受…加入宗教组织或团体

profess的词性：
v.intr.（不及物动词）

6. To make an open affirmation.
声称：公开承认

7. To take the vows of a religious order or congregation.
宣誓入教：宣誓加入某宗教组织或团体

profess的词源：

8. Middle English professen [to take vows]
中古英语 professen [宣誓]

9. from Old French profes [that has taken a religious vow] from Medieval Latin professus [avowed]
源自 古法语 profes [已宣誓的人] 源自 中世纪拉丁语 professus [公开，宣称]

10. and from Medieval Latin profess3re [to administer a vow]
并源自 中世纪拉丁语 profess3re [进行宣誓]

11. both from Latin professus [past participle of] profit?r^o [to affirm openly]
都源自 拉丁语 professus [] profit?r^o的过去分词 [公开宣布]

12. pro- [forth] * see pro- ¹
pro- [向外，向前] *参见 pro-¹

13. fat?r^o [to acknowledge] * see bh3- ²
fat?r^o [承认] *参见 bh3- ²

profess的音标和读音：