Not until the fire was almost out did he wake up, swearing to find himself so wet.

直到火快灭了他才醒来，发现一身湿，嘴里咒骂着。

Also, what does swearing do to you?

另外，骂人对你有什么影响？

Too many people open their books, read a few pages, then put them down, swearing to read again sometime soon.

很多人打开书，读了几页，就放下了，发誓不久后再读。

They went through the same preliminaries, except the swearing in of the jury and the justiciary's speech to them.

除了陪审团宣誓就职和法官对他们的讲话外，他们经历了相同的预赛。

Just so had she lied to Tommy last night, swearing to him that never before had she so entirely, so completely, so utterly... .

昨晚她就这样对汤米撒了谎，向他发誓说她以前从未如此彻底，如此彻底，如此彻底… … 。

That's why we say " swearing." It used to be that you actually were swearing to something, and then it becomes shorthand for using bad words.

这就是为什么我们说“发誓”。过去，你实际上是在发誓某事，然后它就变成了使用脏话的简写。

I could dictate where the interview should be, and I made him take me home with him, still swearing to tell him all about you when we'd had our talk.

我可以决定采访的地点，我让他带我一起回家，仍然发誓在我们谈话后告诉他关于你的一切。