The avowed case for compassion has some superficial merit.

Avowed cargo enthusiast Alex Kasavin certainly doesn't think so.

酷爱工装裤的亚历克斯·卡萨文（Alex Kasavin）肯定不会这么认为。

He avowed himself the author of that book.

他公然宣称自己是那本书的作者。

It is my avowed hope that soon I may find a mistress for it.

我公开宣布我希望找一个女主人。

It's my avowed belief that nuclear weapons are wrong.

我坚决认为发展核武器是错误的。

Their avowed aim is to disrupt modern society.

他们公开宣布的目的是要瓦解现代社会。

Avow one's belief, faith, conviction, etc.

公开表示相信、信仰、服理等。

He avowed that he would never return.

他声明他决不回来了。

I avowed never to fly in a small plane again.

我发誓再也不坐飞机了。

He was a more than commonly candid English gentleman in his avowed dislike of the poet's nonsense, verbiage and verse.

他比一般无偏见的英国绅士更加公然地宣称：他讨厌诗人的言之无物、冗词赘语和咬文嚼字。

She was obliged to avow openly that she had been there.

她只得公开承认去过那里。

He's failed, gone bankrupt in his business at last.

他失败了, 他的事业最终破产.

The cement factory that employed many parents-and provided cement for the school-went bankrupt in 2002.

雇佣了很多家长,并为学校提供水泥的水泥厂在2002年倒闭了.

He was declared a bankrupt in 1991.

他在1991年被宣告破产.

But what cared I for delays or difficulties, Valentine, as long as you confessed that you loved me, and took pity on me? If you will only repeat that avowal now and then, I can endure anything.

我感谢你那句甜蜜的话，我只要求你能时时重复一下那句话，因为它可以使我忘掉其他的一切。

He had striven to put a cheat upon himself by making the avowal of a guilty conscience, but had gained only one other sin, and a self-acknowledged shame, without the momentary relief of being self-deceived.

他竭力想把自己负罪的良心公之于众来自欺，但赢得的却仅仅是另一种罪孽，以及自知之耻，面毫无片刻的自欺之宁。

Coming out means avowal, a desperately needed acknowledgment of yourself and your peers and a commitment to fight for them: not necessarily a collision of the theoretically public and private.

从误区走出来就必须向世人宣誓，这是对你自己、你的同性恋伙伴以及你为他们所做的承诺的肯定：而无需在理论上的公众生活与私人生活上纠缠不清。

Much of the conventional obloquy that attaches to his name is due to the indignation of hypocrites who hate the frank avowal of evil-doing.

惯常加到他名字上的毁谤，一大部分出于恼恨人坦白自供坏事的伪君子的愤慨。

This symbolizes the washing away of original sin and the formal entry of the member into the Church or a public avowal of their acceptance of the faith.

宣誓入教宣誓加入某宗教组织或团体这象征着洗去原罪以及信徒的正式入会，或是象征着他们接收这一信仰的公开誓词。

These words, which conveyed to Elinor a direct avowal of his love for his sister, affected her very much.

这些话语，直接向埃莉诺坦白了他对她妹妹的爱情，这使埃莉诺深受感动。

This he considered sufficient encouragement, and the avowal of all that he felt and had long felt for her immediately followed.

他认为这是对他的充分鼓励，于是立即倾吐他对她的爱慕之情，而且别表白对她心仪已久。