assert: [17] Assert comes ultimately from Latin asserere, which meant literally ‘join oneself to something’. It was a compound verb formed from the prefix ad- ‘to’ and serere ‘join’ (source of English series and serial), and it came to take on various metaphorical connotations: if one ‘joined oneself to’ a particular thing, one ‘declared one’s right to’ it, and if one ‘joined oneself to’ a particular point of view, one ‘maintained’ it, or ‘claimed’ it.
The verb was used in both these senses when English acquired it, from the Latin past participial stem assert-, but the former had more or less died out by the end of the 18th century. => serial, series
assert (v.)
c. 1600, "declare," from Latin assertus, past participle of asserere "claim, maintain, affirm" (see assertion). Related: Asserted; asserting. To assert oneself "stand up for one's rights" is recorded from 1879.
雙語例句
1. Mr. Helm plans to assert that the bill violates the First Amendment.
赫爾姆先生打算聲明該法案違反了憲法第一修正案。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The defendants, who continue to assert their innocence, are expected to appeal.
各被告仍然堅稱無辜，預(yù)計會提起上訴。
來自柯林斯例句
3. She continued to assert that she was innocent.
她仍然堅稱自己無辜。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
4. To assert this is to denigrate the effectiveness of the police.
堅持這一點就是貶低警方的辦事能力.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. The enemy will invariably seek opportunities to assert himself.