A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
自称
Profess
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
只要有可能，所有的人都声称自己是诚实的。相信所有人都诚实是愚蠢的。相信没有这样的人更糟糕。
Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.
他们中有些人自称对哥伦比亚号的所有主要水域都很熟悉，他们向我保证，除了大海，这些水域没有别的联系。