Oath

(noun.) a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury.

(noun.) a solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness, regarding your future acts or behavior; 'they took an oath of allegiance'.

手打:蒙塔古

• I swear it--and the oath shall be kept. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Now, said a suppressed voice with an oath, I've got you! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Sir Percival looked up with a frown and an oath. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Now, Thquire, I can take my oath, from my knowledge of that dog, that that man wath dead—and buried—afore that dog come back to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• So long as you goes now, said he, folding his arms and shutting his eyes with an oath, you may do wot you like! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The Royal Personage declared with an oath that she was perfection, and engaged her again and again in conversation. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He was 'agin 'em both,' he said with an oath, and for why? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I will take my oath he never dropt a syllable of being tired of her, or of wishing to marry Miss Morton, or any thing like it. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• From that moment, Emma could have taken her oath that Mr. Knightley had had no concern in giving the instrument. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I am ready to take my oath of this. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I violate no oath (you shall hear why presently) in making my confidence complete by telling you the name of the society to which I belong. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• And that's what you may tell her, he concluded with an oath; and that's what I will stick to to the last day of my life. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And these vile people reply, without a shadow of proof to justify them, He has his reasons for concealment; we decline to believe him on his oath. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He sank back in his seat with an oath, and striking out of the ring, dashed away desperately homewards. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Louder yet, Vengeance, with a little oath or so added, and yet it will hardly bring her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• He swore ominous oaths over the drugged beer of alehouses, and drank strange toasts in fiery British gin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The party of horsemen came up to the fence, and, with mingled shouts and oaths, were dismounting, to prepare to follow them. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Besides, such hollow oaths would have been vain as void. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The former Protector tendered him the oaths, and presented him with the insignia of office, performing the ceremonies of installation. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Neither will he ever break faith where there have been oaths or agreements? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I'm Cap'n here, though, I'll have you to understand, you swab, shrieked Snipes, with a volley of frightful oaths. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Fortifying himself with this assurance, Sikes drained the glass to the bottom, and then, with many grumbling oaths, called for his physic. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Oaths, as from soldiers to their general, had been taken by them: these they broke. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• We believed in the oaths and promises of princes whom we suffered to remain upon their thrones. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The gardener, on approaching him, had been hunted out, with oaths and threats, to get the horse and chaise ready instantly. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• With a caution, backed by many oaths, to make no more efforts to go out that night, Sikes left her to recover at leisure and rejoined Fagin. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Their oaths I hear at this moment: they shook my philosophy more than did the night, or the isolation, or the strangeness of the scene. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I ask you again,' thundered the doctor, 'are you, on your solemn oaths, able to identify that boy? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.

校对:维托