sworn是什么意思？

sworn

英[swɔ:n] 美[swɔrn]

• adj. 保证说实话的，宣过誓的，（朋友）感情极深的，（敌人）不共戴天的；
• v. 诅咒，咒骂( swear的过去分词 )，（使某人）就…宣誓，郑重承诺，发誓要；

例句

• The new Governor is being sworn in next week. 下星期新总督要宣誓就职。
• The chief witness was allowed to leave the town only after lodging a sworn statement with the police. 主要见证人向警方提交宣过誓的证词后,才可离开市镇。
• Everyone was sworn to secrecy about what had happened. 大家都发誓对所发生的事缄口不言。
• Before telling her what happened, I had sworn her to secrecy. 我要她起誓保守秘密后才告诉她所发生的事情。
• I checked the odometer. He was right. Four miles exactly. I could have sworn it was 20. 我看了一下里程计,他说得没错,确实是4英里,我还坚信是20英里呢。
• All the researchers on the project are sworn to secrecy. 该项目的所有研究人员都按要求起誓保守秘密。
• Soon after the New Year, the new Congress will come to Washington to be sworn in. 新年后不久，新一届国会议员就将前往华盛顿宣誓就职。
• As a tomb guard, he had sworn to protect all elves burials. 作为一名守墓者, 他用剑保护所有的精灵墓地.
• She was sworn in, along with eleven other jurors. 她与其他十一位陪审员一起宣誓就职.
• I checked the odometer . He was right. Four miles exactly. I could have sworn it was 20. 我看了一下里程计, 他说得没错,确实是4英里, 我还坚信是20英里呢.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• Sworn is the past participle of swear .
• ADJ
  (陈述、声明)宣过誓的，宣誓证明的
  If you make a sworn statement or declaration, you swear that everything that you have said in it is true.
  例句
  The allegations against them were made in sworn evidence to the inquiry. 在调查取得的宣誓证词中对他们提出了指控。
• ADJ
  (仇敌)不共戴天的,势不两立的
  If two people or two groups of people are sworn enemies, they dislike each other very much.
  例句
  It somehow seems hardly surprising that Ms Player is now his sworn enemy. 现在普莱耶女士成了他不共戴天的仇敌反倒让人觉得不足为奇了。

英汉词典释义

• adj.
  保证说实话的;宣过誓的
  The chief witness was allowed to leave the town only after lodging a sworn statement with the police. 主要见证人向警方提交宣过誓的证词后,才可离开市镇。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. bound by or as if by an oath;
  "according to an early tradition became his sworn brother""sworn enemies"
  2. bound by or stated on oath;
  "now my sworn friend and then mine enemy"- Shakespeare