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An oath is a very serious, formal promise, often made out loud, sometimes with your hand on something like a book or in front of witnesses — like the oath a president makes before taking office, or the oath a witness makes in court to tell the truth. In older or British English, "oath" can also mean a swear word, but this use is less common today.
誓言、宣誓
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
oathnoun/ˈəʊθ/
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A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
- take an oath
- swear an oath
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A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
- After taking the oath of office, she became the country's forty-third premier.
- The generals swore an oath of loyalty to the country.
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A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
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A curse, a curse word.
- The farther from the Senator's office, the darker and older the furniture, the freer fly four-letter oaths, the higher the heaps of unfiled and unattended papers culminating in a frenzy of pulp in the press section[…]
oathverb/ˈəʊθ/
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archaicTo pledge.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。