新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

pledge

英 [pledʒ]

[NOUN, VERB]

词汇频率：

NOUN. 名词

pledges
1. [C 可数名词] 誓言
When someone makes a pledge, they make a serious promise that they will do something.
近义词
promise
双语例句
例：
The meeting ended with a pledge to step up cooperation between the six states of the region.
会议以承诺加快该地区6个州之间的合作结束。
2. [C 可数名词] 承诺拨款
A pledge is a promise to pay an amount of money to an organization or activity at a particular time or over a particular period.
双语例句
例：
a pledge of forty two million dollars a month.
一个每月拨款4200万美元的承诺。

VERB. 动词

pledges , pledging , pledged
1. [T 及物动词] 保证（做某事） , 保证给予（某物）
When someone pledges to do something, they promise in a serious way to do it. When they pledge something, they promise to give it.
双语例句
例：
The Communists have pledged to support the opposition's motion.
共产党员们已经承诺支持反对党的动议。
例：
Philip pledges support and offers to help in any way that he can.
菲利普承诺给予支持并提供力所能及的帮助。
2. [T 及物动词] 承诺支付（一笔款）
If you pledge a sum of money to an organization or activity, you promise to pay that amount of money to it at a particular time or over a particular period.
双语例句
例：
The French president is pledging $150 million in French aid next year.
法国总统承诺来年将拨款1.5亿美元用于法国援助。
3. [T 及物动词] 保证
If you pledge yourself to something, you commit yourself to following a particular course of action or to supporting a particular person, group, or idea.
近义词
commit
双语例句
例：
The president pledged himself to increase taxes for the rich but not the middle classes.
总统保证增收富人的税收，而不是中产阶级的。
4. [T 及物动词] 抵押
If you pledge something such as a valuable possession or a sum of money, you leave it with someone as a guarantee that you will repay money that you have borrowed.
双语例句
例：
He asked her to pledge the house as security for a loan.
他要她抵押房子作为贷款担保。