claim

v. state to be true, especially when open to question
聲言；自稱
He claimed that he hadn't done it, but I didn't believe him.
他聲稱沒有做這件事，可是我不相信他。
People who fish and sail sometimes claim to have seen monsters in the sea.
漁夫和水手有時會聲稱在海上看到過妖怪。

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