avow

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But this fear is counterbalanced by new realizations at work and with my friends, in which I am able to frankly avow that I have a disability.
但是這種害怕被我在工作中和與朋友相處中的新認(rèn)識(shí)抵消了。在其中，我能夠坦率地承認(rèn)我有疾病。
On abandoning his grandfather's opinions for the opinions of his father, he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not.
當(dāng)他從外祖父的見解轉(zhuǎn)到父親的見解時(shí)，他總以為自己已經(jīng)站穩(wěn)了，現(xiàn)在卻又懷疑起來，感到自己并不穩(wěn)，他心里苦悶，不敢自信。
But whatever the danger, Christ's followers must avow their principles.
但不論遭何危險(xiǎn)，跟從基督的人必須承認(rèn)自己的信仰。

According to President Clinton, they can even publicly avow their homosexuality.
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Having sat down at the green baize more than once with this gentleman (for such he is), this reviewer can avow that Mr Reese is certainly a leading claimant to that title—but only one among many, and one who has never actually won the world championship held annually in Las Vegas.
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