allege

1. al- "ad-, to" + leg- "depute, send" + -e.
2. => send for sth as evidence, bring forth as evidence.
3. => asserted but not proved.

allege 声称

前缀al-同ad-，在字母l开头的词根前同化为l. 词根leg, 送，派，见legate, 教宗使节。提交证据，指控。

allege

allege: [14] Allege is related to law, legal, legislation, legation, and litigation. Its original source was Vulgar Latin *exlitigāre, which meant ‘clear of charges in a lawsuit’ (from ex- ‘out of’ and litigāre ‘litigate’). This developed successively into Old French esligier and Anglo- Norman alegier, from where it was borrowed into English; there, its original meaning was ‘make a declaration before a legal tribunal’.

Early traces of the notion of making an assertion without proof can be detected within 50 years of the word’s introduction into English, but it took a couple of centuries to develop fully. The hard g of allegation suggests that though it is ultimately related to allege, it comes from a slightly different source: Latin allēgātiō, from allēgāre ‘adduce’, a compound verb formed from ad- ‘to’ and lēgāre ‘charge’ (source of English legate and legation).
=> law, legal, legation, legislation, litigation

allege (v.)

c. 1300. It has the form of one French verb and the meaning of another. The form is Anglo-French aleger, Old French eslegier "to clear at law," from Latin ex- "out of" (see ex-) and litigare "bring suit" (see litigate); however eslegier meant "acquit, clear of charges in a lawsuit." It somehow acquired the meaning of French alléguer, from Latin allegare "send for, bring forth, name, produce in evidence," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + legare "to depute, send" (see legate). Related: Alleged; alleging.

1. Prosecutors in the trial allege the defendants plotted to overthrow the government.

检方在审判中指称被告密谋推翻政府。

2. To aver is to allege in a pleading.

立证是在辩护中引例证明.

3. The newspaper reporters allege that the man was murdered but they have given no proof.

新闻记者们宣称这个男人是被谋杀的,但他们没提出证据.

4. He would again and again allege that he was wholly unfitted to new duties.

他一再指出,他完全不适合担任新的职务.

5. They allege he sent her hard - core pornographic movie clips via the Internet.

调查人员指称,多伊尔通过互联网向她发送了露骨色情电影片段.

【allege, testify, affirm, maintain, assert, claim】
这组词都有“断言，声称”的意思，其区别是：
allege: 多指无真凭实据，不提供证据的断言或宣称。
testify: 多指在法庭作证，庄严地宣称自己所说属实。
affirm: 侧重在作出断言时表现出的坚定与不可动摇的态度。
maintain: 与assert近义，但前者指坚决维护某种主张或观点。
assert: 主观意味强，指自认为某事就是如此，而不管事实如何。
claim: 可与assert换用，但语气弱一些，侧重指行为自己的权利提出要求他人承认。

【allege, affirm, announce, proclaim, assert, claim】
这组词都有“声称”的意思，其区别是：
allege: v.在无真凭实据的情况下宣称、断定。
• The suspect alleged that he had not been in the neighborhood at the time of the crime. 嫌疑犯声称案发时他不在现场。
affirm: v.坚信不疑地肯定或宣称，是deny的反义词。
• He affirmed his love for her. 他发誓爱她。
announce: v.宣布，宣告。多指首次当众正式宣布某一主张或态度，常常带有预告的意味。
• The invention of the printing press announced the diffusion of knowledge. 印刷术的发明宣告了知识普及时代的来临。
proclaim: v.宣布；宣告(成立)。指经过深思熟虑后向大众宣布一个明确的决定或判断，尤其指重大事件的宣布，多用于官方场合。
• The president proclaimed an emergency when the war came. 当战争来临的时候总统宣布进入紧急状态。
assert: v.指不管事实如何，主观自信地宣称，或者清楚有力地坚持某个情况为事实。
• She asserted that she was innocent . 她宣称自己是无辜的。
claim: v.要求，声称，断言。多指根据某种规定提出的要求或主张。
• They claim that if more people rode bicycles to go to work there would be fewer automobiles in the downtown section of the city. 他们生成如果有更多的人骑自行车上班的话，闹市区的汽车就会有所减少。