1 N-COUNT (尤指对个人或国家的)誓言,誓约 An oath is a formal promise, especially a promise to be loyal to a person or country. (尤指对个人或国家的)誓言,誓约
2See also:Hippocratic oath
3 N-SING [oft on/under N] (在法庭上承诺说实话的)誓言 In a court of law, when someone takes the oath, they make a formal promise to tell the truth. You can say that someone is on oath or under oath when they have made this promise. (在法庭上承诺说实话的)誓言
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His girlfriend had gone into the witness box and taken the oath.
他的女朋友进入证人席并立了誓。
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Under oath, Aston finally admitted that he had lied.
在宣誓的约束下,阿斯顿终于承认自己撒了谎。
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Three officers gave evidence on oath against him.
3位警官经宣誓提出了对他不利的证据。
4 N-COUNT (表示愤怒、震惊的)咒骂,诅咒 An oath is an offensive or emphatic word or expression which you use when you are angry or shocked. (表示愤怒、震惊的)咒骂,诅咒 [written]
SYN swear word, curse, obscenity, blasphemy
Quotations
He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God Plutarch Lives: Lysander
Oaths are but words, and words but wind Samuel Butler Hudibras
Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay Bible: James
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