坚称

One of Mr Zuma's confidants maintains there was an element of divine providence to the closing Copenhagen ensemble.

祖马的一位密友坚称，这四个国家在哥本哈根会议临近尾声时聚到一起实属天意。

Since I was a boy, I had watched people assert their piety and moral superiority as justifications for claiming an entitlement to political power, and for demonizing those who begged to differ with them, usually over civil rights.

在孩提时代，我已经看到人们坚称宗教信仰的虔诚和道德的高人一等，并以此作为要求得到政治权力的理由，作为丑化那些恳求去拥有不同意见者的理由——通常是在民权方面。

Fars news agency insisted the detentions had been made to safeguard the women's safety.

Fars通讯社坚称，拘押这些女士是为了保证她们的安全。

After Shawar was successfully reinstated as vizier, he demanded that Shirkuh withdraw his army from Egypt for a sum of 30,000 dinars, but he refused insisting it was Nur ad-Din's will that he remain.

在沙瓦尔成功复职后，他要求谢尔库赫从埃及撤军并给予其30000第纳尔，但谢尔库赫拒绝了他，还坚称留下来是努尔丁的旨意。

Futurists affirm that John's prophecies will be fulfilled at the end of the present age.

坚称：约翰的预言将应验在当今时代的末期。

He labeled all homosexuals—including Dick Cheney's daughter—"selfish hedonists," and insisted that adoption by gay couples inevitably resulted in incest.

他将所有同性恋者标记为&自私的享乐主义者&，而且坚称同性恋配偶收养孩子无可避免地将引至乱伦的后果。

Hoarders are usually oblivious to the fact that the animals are malnourished or filthy, and they are convinced they're rescuing them from a worse fate.

储物症患者通常对动物营养不良或肮脏污秽的状况视若无睹，并坚称自己是将它们从更悲惨的命运中解救出来。

Mr Halvorson insists that by rejigging incentives other health providers can also create their own "virtual Kaisers".

Halvorson坚称重新调整激励机制，其他健康服务供应商也能创建他们自己的&Kaiser医疗网络&

Typically modest, or perhaps using some clever kidology, Nadal insisted on Sunday that Roger Federer was still the best player in the world, but the evidence suggests otherwise.

或许是生性谦虚，抑或是聪明的调侃，纳达尔在周日的时候还坚称费德勒仍然是全世界最优秀的网球运动员，而事实却并非如此。

Typically modest, or perhaps using some clever kidology, Nadal insisted that Roger Federer was still the best player in the world, but the evidence suggests otherwise.

或许是生性谦虚，抑或是聪明的调侃，纳达尔此前还坚称费德勒仍然是全世界最优秀的网球运动员，而事实却并非如此。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷