喜樂美語

Picture someone forward in front of other people and putting something private into words: this is what I am, this is what I believe, this is how I feel. That step forward is profess. Because the listeners can hear the words but cannot see inside the speaker, a gap opens between the statement and the truth behind it. Every use of the word lives somewhere along that gap — from a plain open declaration, to a claim that other people are quietly measuring against what the speaker actually does.

profess 可以想成一個人往前站一步，把心裡的東西講給大家聽：我是這樣的人、我相信這個、我有這種感覺。畫面的重點在「當眾說出口」這個動作。也因為聽的人只聽得到話、看不到心裡，話跟事實之間就留下一道縫。這個字的各種用法就散在這道縫的兩邊：一邊是單純把心意講明白，另一邊是別人一邊聽、一邊拿他的行為來對照。

From the word’s history

From Old French professer, from the participle stem of Latin profitērī, from pro- (forward, in public) plus fatērī (to confess, acknowledge): to acknowledge something out in front of everyone.

拉丁文 profitērī 是 pro-（向前、往大家面前）加上 fatērī（承認、坦白）。可以想成把心裡承認的事往前推，推到眾人面前。這正好對上今天 profess 的核心：重點不在心裡怎麼想，而在有沒有講出來讓人聽見。

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同家族的字

過去式 professed過去分詞 professed-ing professing三單 professes

意思相反

concealdenyrenouncehidedisavowrejectwithholdconfessleave the orderadmit guiltrenounce vows

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

professverb/pɹəˈfɛs/

  • 1

    To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.

    • This swayed the balance decisively in Mary's favour, and she was professed on 8 September 1578.
  • 2

    To declare oneself (to be something).

    • They've professed themselves delighted with the results.
    • Kiefer professes himself amused by the fuss that ensued when he announced that he was buying the Mülheim-Kärlich reactor[…].
  • 3

    To declare; to assert, affirm.

    • Having professed her belief in the remedy, she had little choice but to try it.
    • He professes to haue receiued no sinister measure from his Iudge, but most willingly humbles himselfe to the determination of Iustice[…].
  • 4

    To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.

    • Many profess to despise what secretly they hunger after.
    • Ed Miliband professed ignorance of the comment when he was approached by the BBC later.
  • 5

    To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).

    • [N]ow ſuch a liue vngodly, vvithout a care of doing the wil of the Lord (though they profeſſe him in their mouths, yea though they beleeue and acknowledge all the Articles of the Creed, yea haue knowledge of the Scripturs) yet if they liue vngodly, they deny God, and therefore ſhal be denied, […]
    • The remainder of the population, about two-thirds, belongs to the Mongolian race and professes Buddhism.
  • 6

    To work as a professor of; to teach.

    • he was a Spaniard, who about two hundred yeeres since professed Physicke in Tholouse[…].
  • 7

    archaicTo claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。