pronouncement

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++pro·nounce·ment /prəˈnaʊnsmənt/ noun [countable] formalSAY/STATE an official public statement 公告，声明pronouncement on the pope’s last pronouncement on birth control 罗马教皇关于控制生育的最新声明

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pronouncement• Her pronouncements were delivered with the formality of a Vatican edict.• Some professor who has no training at all looks at a manuscript for a few days and makes pronouncements?• For these prophetic pronouncements, exactly the same process of checking and testing is appropriate.• Market watchers meticulously noted his occasional technology pronouncements.• By law, Pope is allowed seven days from the pronouncement of the verdict and sentence to appeal.• After presenting me with a bag of tomatoes, she glanced at my mangled leg and made the pronouncement.• These pronouncements became, in time, self-fulfilling prophesies.• These pronouncements were not necessarily written down and so they might be carried off into oblivion by the winds of time.pronouncement on• the Pope's latest pronouncement on birth control