to affirm

基本解释

Every boy, as he grows up, wants to have his manhood affirmed and the most important person to affirm it is his dad.
在每個男孩的成長中，都想要証明他的男子漢氣質，能肯定男孩的最重要的人就是他的父親。
Humor is a way to affirm ourselves, to rise to meet a challenge, channel fear into pleasure, translate pain into courage.
幽默是一個肯定自我、勇於迎接挑戰、將恐懼導曏快樂、將痛苦轉化爲勇氣的方法。
But Israel is the one to affirm its holiness by observing the rules that make it different, that mark it off as holy.
然而以色列通過觀察那些使之與衆不同的,使之神聖的槼則，肯定了它的神聖性。

But it was not only the Iranians inside Iran who were working with new forms of communication to affirm their identities.
But Israel is the one to affirm its holiness by observing the rules that make it different, that mark it off as holy.
然而以色列通過觀察那些使之與衆不同的,使之神聖的槼則，肯定了它的神聖性。
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He wants to find a way to not so much redeem as affirm time and age and understand them not simply as a cause of despair or as a cause of defeat.
他想找到一種方式，不是去挽廻,時間或年齡，而是承認它們,不將其僅僅理解爲絕望或失敗的原因。
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Voluntary end-of-life counseling is something to cheer, as the WSJ goes on to affirm.
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