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单词

oath

读音
oʊθ
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"Oath"来自古英语的"ath",意思是誓言或者誓约。

释义

n. 誓言,誓约;诅咒,咒骂 [ 复数 oaths ]

例句

He took an oath of loyalty to the government.
他做了效忠于政府的宣誓。
I have sworn an oath of loyalty to the monarchy.
我已经发誓效忠君主制。
Under oath, Andy finally admitted that he had lied.
宣誓之后,安迪终于承认他曾撒了谎。

强化记忆

你可以把 "oath" 和 "oat" 联系起来记忆,虽然这两个单词的意思完全不同,但发音相近,可以帮助记忆。你可以想像"oat"(燕麦)是你的食物,你需要"oath"(发誓)每天吃早餐来保持健康。"Oath" 这个词源自公元前6世纪的古英语 "āth",表示的是庄重的、正式的发誓或者承诺。这种庄重性使得它被广泛应用于公开的场合,比如现代的就职仪式,庭审,入籍,军队入伍等。

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the president now greets the crowd,he takes his oath,and now he's speaking to the people.
The law is "reason free from passion."The doctors' Hippocratic oath statesthat "warmth, sympathy and understanding
I said, "I will try so hard not to hurt you."It was the Hippocratic Oath,and I didn't even know I was saying it.
Our pact with our patients,the Hippocratic Oath and its variants,is about the sanctity of the patient-doctor relationship.
Some of us said for the first time that we were women,took this oath of solidarity seriously.Some of us bore children and some of us did not,
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