assert

UK:  [ə'sɜː(r)t]

US:  [ə'sɜrt]

第三人称单数：asserts  现在分词：asserting  过去分词：asserted  

v.

1.声称;断言;主张;辩护;维护

2.坚持,坚持说;坚信;断言,断定,肯定地说出

3.主张,硬说;断言,声明

4.宣称;断言

5.维护(权利),坚持

6.声称,宣称;表明;说明;申张;宣布

7.表现自己;表现自己的权威、自信心;维护自己的权利

8.表明;表现出

9.发挥出来

10.卖弄地说

1 . To speak of American literature, then, is not to assert that it is completely unlike that of Europe.
那么，要谈论美国文学，倒并非意欲断言，它与欧洲文学全然大相径庭。

2 . We encouraged him to assert his view of the matter.
我们鼓励他坚持自己对此事的看法。

3 . it's been over for about 15 years. but i'll never feel clean and i'll never be able to assert that i have been a good man all my life.
这一切已经过去15年了。但我将永远感到自己的肮脏，永远无法斩钉截铁地说我做了一辈子的好人。

4 . Mr. Aso, whose previous two successors resigned after just a year each in office, attempted Thursday to assert strong leadership.
麻生太郎周四试图表现出强大的领导能力，在他之前的连续两任首相都仅仅当政一年便就下台了。

5 . Indeed, the only way we could assert that there was a gene in an organism was by finding a mutant allele for it.
事实上，唯一能确定一个生物体内存在某一种基因的方法就是找到这个基因的突变等位基因。