affirm /əˈfɜːm/ CET6 TEM4 ( affirming, affirmed, affirms )

• 1. 

  V-T If you affirm that something is true or that something exists, you state firmly and publicly that it is true or exists. 公开肯定 [正式]

  例：

  The court affirmed that the information can be made public under the Freedom of Information Act.

  法院公开肯定了此信息能依据《自由信息法案》公之于众。

  例：

  ...a speech in which he affirmed a commitment to lower taxes.

  …在其中他公开肯定了减税承诺的一次演讲。

• 2. 

  affirmation N-VAR 公开肯定

  例：

  The North Atlantic Treaty begins with the affirmation that its parties "reaffirm their faith in the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations."

  《北大西洋公约》以公开肯定其成员“重申其对《联合国宪章》的目的以及原则的信念”开头。

• 3. 

  V-T If an event affirms something, it shows that it is true or exists. 证实 [正式]

  例：

  Everything I had accomplished seemed to affirm that opinion.

  我所做成的每件事似乎都证实了那个观点。

• 4. 

  affirmation N-UNCOUNT 证实 [also 'a' N]

  例：

  The ruling was a welcome affirmation of the constitutional right to free speech.

  此裁决是对言论自由这一宪法权利的受人欢迎的肯定。