(verb.) insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized; 'Women should assert themselves more!'.
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双语例句
Then in a slow but effectual way he began to assert himself. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
That is the monstrous proposition which you are driven to assert, if you attempt to associate the disappearance of the Moonstone with Franklin Blake. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
She thought he did well to assert his own will, but she wished that will to have been more intelligible to the multitude. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Now this I assert to be entirely the present case. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
I never could, even in forming a common acquaintance, assert or prove a claim to average quickness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
Certainly, I can: and your friend will unhesitatingly confirm the truth of what I assert. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
In that case there is no need for me to write about the trumpery scandal by which I was the sufferer--the innocent sufferer, I positively assert. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
A cursory examination of the latter revealed no mortal injuries and after a brief rest he asserted that he felt fit to attempt the return voyage. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星公主.
Having now asserted my independence in a proper manner, I may come to how do you find yourself, and I hope you're pretty well. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
God knows, I put my trust in his vows, and believe his asserted faith--but for that, I would not seek what I am now resolved to attain. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Already the common sense of the natural political map had asserted itself. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
This agency of the supreme Being we know to have been asserted by [As father Malebranche and other Cartesians. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
Whatever might be the truth about all this misery, there was one dread which asserted itself. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
I believe it scarce will be asserted, that the first species of reasoning alone is ever the cause of any action. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
Now that medical attendance was no longer indispensable, I played the first move in the game by asserting myself against the doctor. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
But there was a strange tension, an emphasis, as if they were asserting their wishes, against the truth. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
They were solid, too, in asserting that no prohibition could prevent their exportation, when private people found any advantage in exporting them. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
He too seemed, by his manners, to have entered a little more on the way of humility; he was quieter, and less self-asserting. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
It was getting stronger, it was re-asserting itself, the inviolable moon. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Her heart tried to persist in asserting that George Osborne was worthy and faithful to her, though she knew otherwise. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
A Buffer, suddenly astounding the other three, by detaching himself, and asserting individuality, inquires: 'How discovered, and why? 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
And Franklin Blake's innocence, as you have just seen, unanswerably asserts itself. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Mr. Tulkinghorn re-asserts it by another inclination of his head. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
De Candolle asserts that it is only in the Euphrates-Tigris district that wheat has ever been found growing wild. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
It asserts the liberty of conscience, in behalf of the Anabaptists, the Quakers, and other sectarians that had been persecuted. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
None of the gre at writers of Europe, he asserts, have been the adherents of the traditional faith. 李贝.西洋科学史.
He asserts that the function of the forked twig in the hands of the water-finder may be to act as an indicator of some material or other mental disturbance within him. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
At least there is no opposition to YOU, Volumnia asserts with confidence. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.