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.
在每个男孩的成长中，都想要证明他的男子汉气质，能肯定男孩的最重要的人就是他的父亲。
Humor is a way to affirm ourselves, to rise to meet a challenge, channel fear into pleasure, translate pain into courage.
幽默是一个肯定自我、勇于迎接挑战、将恐惧导向快乐、将痛苦转化为勇气的方法。
But Israel is the one to affirm its holiness by observing the rules that make it different, that mark it off as holy.
然而以色列通过观察那些使之与众不同的,使之神圣的规则，肯定了它的神圣性。

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.
然而以色列通过观察那些使之与众不同的,使之神圣的规则，肯定了它的神圣性。
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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.
他想找到一种方式，不是去挽回,时间或年龄，而是承认它们,不将其仅仅理解为绝望或失败的原因。
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Voluntary end-of-life counseling is something to cheer, as the WSJ goes on to affirm.
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