I took an oath upon my life.

我以自己的性命发过誓。

At sight of what lay beneath both men stepped back-involuntary oaths upon their lips-for there before them lay the dead body of Mbeeda, the faithless head man.

看到躺在下面的东西时，两个人都往后退了一步——嘴上不由自主地发誓——因为他们面前躺着姆比达的尸体，背信弃义的首领。

At Zurich, the law orders, that in cases of necessity, every one should be taxed in proportion to his revenue; the amount of which he is obliged to declare upon oath.

在苏黎世，法律规定，在必要的情况下， 每个人都应按其收入的比例征税； 他有义务在宣誓后宣布的数额。

Every man assesses himself, and, in the presence of the magistrate, puts annually into the public coffer a certain sum of money, which he declares upon oath, to be one fourth per cent.

每个人都会评估自己，并在地方法官在场的情况下，每年将一定数额的钱存入公共金库，并宣誓宣布为百分之四。

To oblige every citizen to declare publicly upon oath, the amount of his fortune, must not, it seems, in those Swiss cantons, be reckoned a hardship. At Hamburg it would be reckoned the greatest.

要求每个公民宣誓公开宣布他的财产数额，在瑞士的那些州看来，绝不能被认为是一件困难的事情。在汉堡，它将被认为是最伟大的。

It is in Scotland supported by the evidence of the public fiars, annual valuations made upon oath, according to the actual state of the markets, of all the different sorts of grain in every different county of Scotland.

在苏格兰，它得到了公开价格证据的支持，这些价格是根据市场的实际情况对苏格兰每个不同县的所有不同种类的谷物进行宣誓后的年度估价。