Declare

(verb.) state firmly; 'He declared that he was innocent'.

(verb.) declare to be; 'She was declared incompetent'; 'judge held that the defendant was innocent'.

(verb.) proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against; 'His wife declared at once for moving to the West Coast'.

(verb.) state emphatically and authoritatively; 'He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with'.

(verb.) make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official; 'Do you have anything to declare?'.

(verb.) designate (a trump suit or no-trump) with the final bid of a hand.

(verb.) authorize payments of; 'declare dividends'.

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• I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I do declare once for all that it ought to be put a stop to. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• When a man cannot measure, and a great many others who cannot measure declare that he is four cubits high, can he help believing what they say? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• At one time I considered whether I should not declare myself guilty, and suffer the penalty of the law, less innocent than poor Justine had been. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I declare you're enough to make one regret ever having had a family at all. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I can lay my hand on my heart, and declare that every page has charmed, refreshed, delighted me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I declare, my dear Count, you make me shudder also. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Then Prussia declared war in support of Austria, and the allied forces, under the Duke of Brunswick, prepared to invade France. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Worcester declared that he looked forward to no hope nor rest until we should be really married. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The English and the Germans (he indignantly declared) were always reviling the Italians for their inability to cultivate the higher kinds of music. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He has over and over again solemnly declared that, until this scandal assailed him, he had never even heard of the Moonstone. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Bingley was quite uncomfortable; his sisters declared that they were miserable. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• So they declared that there were in the world men naturally slaves. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Lord Mansfield declared that slavery was a condition unknown to English law, an odious condition, and Somersett walked out of the court a free man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Only in the summer of 1776 did Congress take the irrevocable step of declaring for separation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There were juvenile letters and petitions from Rebecca, too, in the collection, imploring aid for her father or declaring her own gratitude. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I could not chance causing her additional pain or sorrow by declaring a love which, in all probability she did not return. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• I said nothing: I was afraid of occasioning some shock by declaring my identity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The Duke wrote declaring that he had never offered so much. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• With my brother John, answered little Mary; and next she asked her mother, when she might marry him, declaring that she could not wait much longer. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Sophia alone joined Lord Deerhurst in his laugh; declaring that it was very funny to be sure. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Mamma often declares the likeness is quite ridiculous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• This man declares that he was not absent from his post for an instant, and he is positive that neither boy nor man could have gone that way unseen. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• But we have already seen how it entails extinction; and how largely extinction has acted in the world's history, geology plainly declares. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The professor declares that he heard the distant cry, but that he knows nothing more. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• She declares she passed the night in London at a certain house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• She always declares she will never marry, which, of course, means just nothing at all. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• It is uncertain if his wife was much older, though tradition declares she was forty. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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