assert

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as·sert /əˈsɜːt $ -ɜːrt/ verb [transitiveT]

1 SAY/STATEto state firmly that something is true （坚决）主张；断言

French cooking, she asserted, is the best in the world.

她坚称法国菜是世界上最好的。

assert that

He asserted that nuclear power was a safe and non-polluting energy source.

他断言核能是安全、无污染的能源。

2 assert your rights/independence/superiority etc SAY/STATEto state very strongly your right to something 坚持自己的权利/独立/优越性等

Native Americans asserting their rights to ancestral land

坚持祖先的土地归自己所有的印第安人

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assert your rights/independence/superiority etc• And the revolution in the structure of services and management meant elderly frail people found it increasingly difficult to assert their rights.• Power gives us the ability to control, to choose and to assert our independence.• Stickers are available throughout the county to help squeezed out pedestrians assert their rights.• You need to be selective and judge when it is appropriate to assert your rights.• But she sought not so much to break a taboo as to assert her independence from the male yoke.• Mrs Armitage's heir is already asserting his rights in the matter but that is not my concern.• Athens asserted her rights over her citizens temporarily exiled, as she did over those at home and liable for service.

3 assert yourself CONFIDENTto behave in a determined way and say clearly what you think 积极表达自己的意见

Women began to assert themselves politically.

女性也开始积极提出自己的政治主张。

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assert yourself• Abusers are often suspicious and jealous, suffer from low self-esteem and need to assert themselves.• Dependent and insecure, they may find it difficult to join in and to assert themselves.• When it was too late to alter the course of events, the party's leaders found the courage to assert themselves.• Which man wants to admit that he's a wimp and needs to assert himself?• Yet here again political realities asserted themselves.• You have a certain window of opportunity to assert yourself.• The trade of Wells puts demand on Chris Carpenter to assert himself at the top of the rotation.• Don't be afraid to assert yourself in the interview.• There became room for younger, different, mainly nonconformist leaders to assert themselves, not necessarily by parliamentary means.

4 assert itself EFFECT/INFLUENCEif an idea or belief asserts itself, it begins to influence something 〔观念、信念〕产生影响

National pride began to assert itself.

民族自豪感开始产生影响。

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assert itself• Lying in clouds of scent in the sunken tub filled to the brim, that streak of equanimity she had asserted itself.• So by this means, the interest of ownership in the performance of the business owned can assert itself.• The current wild weather through the West and Midwest again has raised the question: Is global warming finally asserting itself?• The party will continue to assert itself and severely punish political dissent.• The former character asserts itself, and some-times disagreeably, weaKly, disgracefully.• Our novelist's intellectual humour is asserting itself beneath the narrative.• This was the way in which uncertainty asserted itself in Heisenberg's original formulation of quantum mechanics.• Islam began to assert itself in the seventh century.• Now, with the future assured, the comfortable past asserted itself unchanged.

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assert• "It's a fairness issue, " she asserted.• He is entitled to assert his supposed right on reasonably equal terms.• After 1947, Nehru began to assert his supremacy and sack party chiefs who opposed him.• An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.• The Church asserts that human beings are incarnated spirits: souls in bodies.• There exists today widespread propaganda which asserts that socialism is dead.• Professor Sykes has asserted that the skeleton, which was said to be man's first ancestor, is in fact a fake.• They assert that the student has been incapacitated by the power differential, and must be in need of their protection.• Mr. Collins asserted that they had either such a right or at least a right that Lautro should consider whether to hear them.• If women are to have equal opportunity, they must loudly assert their ability to do all traditional "male' jobs.

assert that• Apart from asserting that dwarfs are usually unintelligent, the author offers no comment on the morphological differences between human physical types.• The suit asserts that EconoPage was just a reseller of paging services and equipment.• Hayes asserted that he had been deceived by the southern promises to maintain order.• But the company has vigorously asserted that its marketing practices do not violate the 1995 consent decree.• The hon. Gentleman has no evidence for asserting that standards have dropped month by month.• It would be unrealistic to assert that the activity is risk free.• They assert that the destiny of the soul is related to the activity of the soul during its habitation in the body.• Friends of the Earth responded by asserting that there was sufficient interest among energy suppliers to provide three times that amount.• All 12 leaders asserted that they had met their main goals.

Origin assert

(1600-1700) Latin past participle of asserere, from ad- “to” + serere “to join”

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