单词professed
adj.: 公开表明的；自称的；自诩的；假充的
v.: “profess”的过去分词和过去式
网络: 专业；公开声称的；假装的
公开表明的:
used to describe a belief or a position that sb has publicly made known
自称的；自诩的；假充的:
used to describe a feeling or an attitude that sb says they have but which may not be sincere
已立誓信教的
专业的,专门的
假装的,表面上的,自称的
公开表示的
(无神论者)公然表示自己观点的;公开声称的
adj.declaredavowedacknowledgedopenstated
adj.unspokenproven
So far as I knew, my mother, though not a professed atheist, had never given a thought to religion in her life.
妈妈并不是无神论者，可活着的时候也从未想到过宗教。
Therefore, she confronted him and professed that after all those years, he was still the only man that she had ever loved.
所以，她当面向他坦白，事隔那么多年，他仍然是她惟一爱过的男人｡
His professed attitude to the political process was that of the critical Public Choice theorists.
他对政治程序的态度，和那些批评现有制度的公共选择（PublicChoice）理论者是一致的。
When I called him at his home in England, he professed to be just as confused after 15 years of thinking about Japan as Hearn was.
当我打电话到他在英格兰的家中时，他承认自己就像小泉八云一样，对日本思考了15年，最终却还是一样迷惘。
Whatever he professed was said in such a profound manner that we were all immediately propelled to be more productive.
不管他想表示什么，他说的话总是很深刻，总是能激励我们马上提高生产力。
Their problem was that they professed to have knowledge beyond their area of expertise.
对他们而言，问题不在于称自己拥有知识。
The three men immediately professed their innocence, but Mr. Ghosn went on national television to say the company had evidence against them.
三人立即宣称无辜，而戈森在全国性电视台说，公司拥有不利于他们的证据。
She professed total ignorance of the matter.
她自称对那事一无所知。
She was a painter herself and, among those who professed to know, it was said that she had far more talent than he.
她自己也是画家，那些声称了解情况的人中流传这样一种说法，说她比他更有才能。
Many a man has professed to me that his brain never works so well as when he is swinging along the high road or over hill and dale.
许多人对我宣扬，他的头脑从来没有象他在公路上溜哒或翻山越谷时那么灵活。