assert

英 [?'s??t] 美[?'s?t]

GRECET4TEM4IELTS考研TOEFLCET6中低頻詞核心詞匯

第三人稱單數:?asserts;過去式:?asserted;過去分詞:?asserted;現在分詞:?asserting;

assert 斷言

前綴as- 同ad-. 詞根ser, 連結，見series. 原指把手放在奴隸頭上，宣稱對奴隸所有權。 -t, 過去分詞格。

assert: assert: [17] Assert comes ultimately from Latin asserere, which meant literally ‘join oneself to something’. It was a compound verb formed from the prefix ad- ‘to’ and serere ‘join’ (source of English series and serial), and it came to take on various metaphorical connotations: if one ‘joined oneself to’ a particular thing, one ‘declared one’s right to’ it, and if one ‘joined oneself to’ a particular point of view, one ‘maintained’ it, or ‘claimed’ it.

The verb was used in both these senses when English acquired it, from the Latin past participial stem assert-, but the former had more or less died out by the end of the 18th century.
=> serial, series
assert (v.): c. 1600, "declare," from Latin assertus, past participle of asserere "claim, maintain, affirm" (see assertion). Related: Asserted; asserting. To assert oneself "stand up for one's rights" is recorded from 1879.

1. Mr. Helm plans to assert that the bill violates the First Amendment.: 赫爾姆先生打算聲明該法案違反了憲法第一修正案。

2. The defendants, who continue to assert their innocence, are expected to appeal.: 各被告仍然堅稱無辜，預計會提起上訴。

4. To assert this is to denigrate the effectiveness of the police.: 堅持這一點就是貶低警方的辦事能力.

5. The enemy will invariably seek opportunities to assert himself.: 敵人是一定要尋找機會表現他們自己的.