a person’s continued support for a political party, religion, leader, etc.（对政党、宗教、统治者的）忠诚，效忠，拥戴- to switch/transfer/change allegiance转变／转移／改变拥戴对象
- an oath/a vow/a statement of allegiance效忠宣誓／誓约／声明
- People of various party allegiances joined the campaign.各个不同政党的拥护者都参加了这次活动。🔊🔊
- allegiance (to somebody/something) to pledge/swear allegiance宣誓；发誓
- He affirmed his allegiance to the president.他坚称自己拥戴总统。🔊🔊
Extra Examples- Every day the children say the Pledge of Allegiance.美国学童每天都要进行效忠宣誓。
- Every day the schoolchildren pledge an oath of allegiance to their country.学童每天都宣誓要忠于自己的国家。
- He is now very rich but his allegiance to his working-class origins is still strong.他现在很富有，但他对自己的工人阶级出身依然很忠贞。
- He keeps everyone guessing about his true allegiance.他一直让大家猜测谁是他真正的拥戴对象。
- He owed his allegiance to the organization that had given him all his opportunities.他矢志忠于给了他这么多机会的组织。
- It is hard to keep up with the changing allegiances between the various political parties.不同政党的效忠对象不断变换，令人跟不上形势。
- Love of one's country does not mean blind allegiance to a regime.爱国并不意味着对政权的盲目忠诚。
- Many people have abandoned their traditional party allegiances.许多人已不再像以往那样效忠于政党。
- New officers take an oath of allegiance to their country.新上任的军官宣誓效忠自己的国家。
- The rebels now have to swear allegiance to a leader they hate.叛乱分子现在不得不发誓效忠于他们所憎恨的领袖。
- The union needs to retain the allegiance of all its members for the strike to succeed.罢工若要取得胜利，工会需要使所有成员忠心不渝。
- The various splinter groups all claim allegiance to the true spirit of the movement.所有分裂出来的小派别都声称忠于该运动的真正精神。
- We will give our full allegiance to the party and everything it believes in.我们对于党及其所信仰的一切无限忠诚。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + allegianceprepositionphrases- an oath of allegiance
- a pledge of allegiance
See full entry Word Originlate Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, variant of Old French ligeance, from lige, liege (from medieval Latin laeticus, probably of Germanic origin), perhaps by association with Anglo-Latin alligantia ‘alliance’.