Vow

(noun.) a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner; 'they took vows of poverty'.

(verb.) make a vow; promise; 'He vowed never to drink alcohol again'.

(verb.) dedicate to a deity by a vow.

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• As to dressing, I make this vow: I'll never dress more finely than as you see me at present. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But no love shines on her brow, Nor breaks she a marriage-vow, Love is colder. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• In his last illness, he had it brought continually to his bedside; and but an hour before he died, he bound me by vow to keep the creature. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I am bound by my vow to do so, replied the knight; but I would willingly know who you are, who request my assistance in their behalf? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I vow to Saint Nicholas of Limoges a candlestick of pure gold-- Spare thy vow, said the Templar, and mark me. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But the vow had been part of the bargain by which he secured the support of Pope Innocent III in his election as emperor. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Now, Pa, attend to what I am going to say, and promise and vow to be obedient. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Moreover, a priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense _esprit de corps_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I vowed to myself I would see them all to the devil. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I vowed that, come what might, it should be a secret no longer. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Some day it may be we shall see a new order of Jesuits, vowed not to the service of the Pope, but to the service of mankind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You have promised and vowed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I have vowed not to go back, Eustacia. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I had vowed to my own heart never to shadow her countenance even with transient grief, and should I prove recreant at the hour of greatest need? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• 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.
• But now--that little BUT passed like a sponge over all his vows. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• His final method of taking his vows marks him the countryman of Don Quixote. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• After all our debatings and difficulties, we find there is nothing that will suit us altogether so well, nothing so unexceptionable, as Lovers' Vows. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Nay, said the Friar, if thou dost retract vows made in favour of holy Church, thou must do penance. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• A man vows, and yet will not cast away the means of breaking his vow. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Lovers' Vows were at an end, and Lord and Lady Ravenshaw left to act My Grandmother by themselves. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• There's a hackney-coachman downstairs with a black eye, and a tied-up head, vowing he'll have the law of you. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Legree, cursing his ill luck, and vowing dire vengeance on the morrow, went to bed. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.

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