英 [əˈvaʊ] 美 [əˈvaʊ]
vt. 承认；公开宣称；坦率承认
第三人称单数avows
现在分词avowing
过去式avowed
过去分词avowed
avow /əˈvaʊ/ [ avowing avowed avows ]
及物动词 If you avow something, you admit it or declare it. 承认; 宣布
...a public statement avowing neutrality.
...一份宣布中立的公开声明。
公开宣称
坚持(诉讼)；开释，证明…无罪
供认
招认
坦白
公开宣称
承认；公开宣称；坦率承认
accept / recognize / agree / acknowledge / grant
But whatever the danger, Christ's followers must avow their principles.
但不论遭何危险，跟从基督的人必须承认自己的信仰。
The senator was forced to avow openly that he had received some money from that company.
那个参议员被迫承认曾经收过那家公司的一些钱。
But this fear is counterbalanced by new realizations at work and with my friends, in which I am able to frankly avow that I have a disability.
但是这种害怕被我在工作中和与朋友相处中的新认识抵消了。在其中，我能够坦率地承认我有疾病。
How many of us harbor secret fantasies of such self-assurance that we would never dare avow in public!
WSJ: Theodore Dalrymple on the Secret Appeal of Downton Abbey
According to President Clinton, they can even publicly avow their homosexuality.
Having sat down at the green baize more than once with this gentleman (for such he is), this reviewer can avow that Mr Reese is certainly a leading claimant to that title but only one among many, and one who has never actually won the world championship held annually in Las Vegas.