詞彙精選：allege的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

v.

斷言，宣稱 [T]

例句：

Police allege that he was murdered.

警方聲稱他是被人謀殺的。

例句：

He alleged illness as a reason for not going to work.

他宣稱有病，作爲不去上班的理由。

提出 [T]

例句：

The divorce suit alleged that she had been cheating on her husband.

離婚起訴提出她對丈夫不忠。

例句：

They also alleged that the decrease in recycling would cause an increase in mining and logging in the region.

他們還提出，回收的減少將導致該地區開礦和伐木量的增加。

二、詞義辨析：

assert,affirm,allege,maintain,testify,claim

這些動詞均含有“斷言，聲稱”之意。assert主觀意味強，指自認爲某事就是如此，而不管事實如何。affirm側重在作出斷言時表現出的堅定與不可動搖的態度。allege多指無真憑實據，不提供證據的斷言或宣稱。maintain與assert近義，但前者指堅決維護某種主張或觀點。testify多指在法庭作證，莊嚴地宣稱自己所說屬實。claim可與assert換用，但語氣弱一些，側重指行爲自己的權利提出要求他人承認。

三、參考例句：

Police allege that he was murdered.

警方聲稱他是被人謀殺的。

To aver is to allege in a pleading.

立證是在辯護中引例證明。

Students occasionally allege illness as the reason for absence.

學生時不時會稱病缺課。

The newspapers allege that the police shot the suspect without warning.

報紙指稱說警察未經示警就槍殺那位嫌疑犯。

Police allege that Ahmet on several occasions urged people in his presence to commit acts of terrorism.

警察宣稱阿提拉·哈邁德多次親自鼓動人們進行恐怖活動。

From time to time, people allege that we have created a government'back door' into our systems, but Google does not have a back door for the government to access private user data.

一直以來，人們斷言我們的系統裏有對政府‘開後門’，但是事實上谷歌公司根本沒有所謂的後門，讓政府有可乘之機。

Some allege the reporter fabricated the story, but it has already caused uproar online, where responses range from derision to expressions of real or exaggerated jealousy of the young man's good luck.

有些人指出這則消息是媒體造價，但無論如何這則消息已經在網上造成一片譁然，有人嘲笑，有人假裝嫉妒，也有人真的嫉妒。