allegiance
noun /əˈliːdʒəns/
/əˈliːdʒəns/
[uncountable, countable]- a person’s continued support for a political party, religion, leader, etc.
(对政党、宗教、统治者的)忠诚,效忠,拥戴 - to switch/transfer/change allegiance
转变/转移/改变拥戴对象 - an oath/a vow/a statement of allegiance
效忠宣誓/誓约/声明 - People of various party allegiances joined the campaign.
各个不同政党的拥护者都参加了这次活动。 - allegiance (to somebody/something) to pledge/swear allegiance
宣誓;发誓 - He affirmed his allegiance to the president.
他坚称自己拥戴总统。
- Every day the children say the Pledge of Allegiance.
美国学童每天都要进行效忠宣誓。 - Every day the schoolchildren pledge an oath of allegiance to their country.
学童每天都宣誓要忠于自己的国家。 - He is now very rich but his allegiance to his working-class origins is still strong.
他现在很富有,但他对自己的工人阶级出身依然很忠贞。 - He keeps everyone guessing about his true allegiance.
他一直让大家猜测谁是他真正的拥戴对象。 - He owed his allegiance to the organization that had given him all his opportunities.
他矢志忠于给了他这么多机会的组织。 - It is hard to keep up with the changing allegiances between the various political parties.
不同政党的效忠对象不断变换,令人跟不上形势。 - Love of one's country does not mean blind allegiance to a regime.
爱国并不意味着对政权的盲目忠诚。 - Many people have abandoned their traditional party allegiances.
许多人已不再像以往那样效忠于政党。 - New officers take an oath of allegiance to their country.
新上任的军官宣誓效忠自己的国家。 - The rebels now have to swear allegiance to a leader they hate.
叛乱分子现在不得不发誓效忠于他们所憎恨的领袖。 - The union needs to retain the allegiance of all its members for the strike to succeed.
罢工若要取得胜利,工会需要使所有成员忠心不渝。 - The various splinter groups all claim allegiance to the true spirit of the movement.
所有分裂出来的小派别都声称忠于该运动的真正精神。 - We will give our full allegiance to the party and everything it believes in.
我们对于党及其所信仰的一切无限忠诚。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- strong
- traditional
- …
- give
- owe
- declare
- …
- allegiance to
- an oath of allegiance
- a pledge of allegiance
词源late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, variant of Old French ligeance, from lige, liege (from medieval Latin laeticus, probably of Germanic origin), perhaps by association with Anglo-Latin alligantia ‘alliance’. - to switch/transfer/change allegiance