avow

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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。
On abandoning his grandfather's opinions for the opinions of his father, he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and without daring to avow it to himself, that he was not.
当他从外祖父的见解转到父亲的见解时，他总以为自己已经站稳了，现在却又怀疑起来，感到自己并不稳，他心里苦闷，不敢自信。
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。

According to President Clinton, they can even publicly avow their homosexuality.
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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.
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