a person’s continued support for a political party, religion, leader, etc. (对政党、宗教、统治者的)忠诚,效忠,拥戴 to switch/transfer/change allegiance 转变/转移/改变拥戴对象 an oath/a vow/a statement of allegiance 效忠宣誓/誓约/声明 People of various party allegiances joined the campaign. 各个不同政党的拥护者都参加了这次活动。 - allegiance (to somebody/something)
to pledge/swear allegiance 宣誓;发誓 He affirmed his allegiance to the president. 他坚称自己拥戴总统。
Extra ExamplesEvery day the children say the Pledge of Allegiance. 美国学童每天都要进行效忠宣誓。 Every day the schoolchildren pledge an oath of allegiance to their country. 学童每天都宣誓要忠于自己的国家。 He is now very rich but his allegiance to his working-class origins is still strong. 他现在很富有,但他对自己的工人阶级出身依然很忠贞。 He keeps everyone guessing about his true allegiance. 他一直让大家猜测谁是他真正的拥戴对象。 He owed his allegiance to the organization that had given him all his opportunities. 他矢志忠于给了他这么多机会的组织。 It is hard to keep up with the changing allegiances between the various political parties. 不同政党的效忠对象不断变换,令人跟不上形势。 Love of one's country does not mean blind allegiance to a regime. 爱国并不意味着对政权的盲目忠诚。 Many people have abandoned their traditional party allegiances. 许多人已不再像以往那样效忠于政党。 New officers take an oath of allegiance to their country. 新上任的军官宣誓效忠自己的国家。 The rebels now have to swear allegiance to a leader they hate. 叛乱分子现在不得不发誓效忠于他们所憎恨的领袖。 The union needs to retain the allegiance of all its members for the strike to succeed. 罢工若要取得胜利,工会需要使所有成员忠心不渝。 The various splinter groups all claim allegiance to the true spirit of the movement. 所有分裂出来的小派别都声称忠于该运动的真正精神。 We will give our full allegiance to the party and everything it believes in. 我们对于党及其所信仰的一切无限忠诚。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- strong
- traditional
- …
- give
- owe
- declare
- …
- allegiance to
- an oath of allegiance
- a pledge of allegiance
Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, variant of Old French ligeance, from lige, liege (from medieval Latin laeticus, probably of Germanic origin), perhaps by association with Anglo-Latin alligantia ‘alliance’.