1SAY/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。
2assert your rights/independence/superiority etcSAY/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 elderlyfrail 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 pedestriansassert 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 maleyoke.• Mrs Armitage's heir is already asserting his rights in the matter but that is not my concern.• Athensasserted her rights over her citizens temporarily exiled, as she did over those at home and liable for service.
3assert yourselfCONFIDENTto 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 lowself-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 realitiesasserted 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 parliamentarymeans.
4assert itselfEFFECT/INFLUENCEif an idea or beliefasserts 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 sunkentub 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 currentwildweather 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 intellectualhumour is asserting itself beneath the narrative.• This was the way in which uncertaintyasserted itself in Heisenberg's original formulation of quantummechanics.• Islam began to assert itself in the seventhcentury.• Now, with the future assured, the comfortable past asserted itself unchanged.