espouse
英 [ɪˈspaʊz]
美 [ɪˈspaʊz]
v. 支持,拥护,赞成(信仰、政策等)
过去分词:espoused 过去式:espoused 现在分词:espousing 第三人称单数:espouses
Collins.1 / BNC.11682 / COCA.9966
牛津词典
verb
- 支持,拥护,赞成(信仰、政策等)
to give your support to a belief, policy etc.- They espoused the notion of equal opportunity for all in education.
他们赞同在教育方面人人机会均等的观念。
- They espoused the notion of equal opportunity for all in education.
柯林斯词典
- VERB 支持;拥护
If youespousea particular policy, cause, or belief, you become very interested in it and give your support to it.- She ran away with him to Mexico and espoused the revolutionary cause.
她跟着他逃到墨西哥,并支持革命事业。
- She ran away with him to Mexico and espoused the revolutionary cause.
英英释义
verb
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- She embraced Catholicism
- They adopted the Jewish faith
- choose and follow
- She followed the feminist movement
- The candidate espouses Republican ideals
- take in marriage
双语例句
- Some teachers enthusiastically espouse the benefits to be gained from educational software.
有些教师热烈赞同可以从教学软件中得到好处的观点。 - Whether Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Espouse Confucianism as the Orthodox State Ideology: still on the Thoughtway
论汉武帝是否独尊儒术&也谈思想方法问题 - It would be irresponsible to espouse such radicalism if an alternative might work.
如果还有其他方案可能管用,支持这样的激进主义就是不负责任的。 - We espouse gender equality in all other aspects of life, and it is an anomaly that in the rules relating to the highest public officer we continue to enshrine male superiority, Cameron wrote.
我们在生活中的其他方面都尊重男女平等,而在涉及到最高公职人员时我们继续把男权奉为神明,这是一种反常现象。 - The Chinese people on both sides of the Straits all believe that there is only one China and espouse national reunification. taiwan's status as an inalienable part of China has been determined and cannot be changed. "self-determination" for Taiwan is out of the question.
海峡两岸的中国人民都主张只有一个中国,都拥护国家的统一,台湾作为中国不可分割的一部分的地位是确定的、不能改变的,不存在什么“自决”的问题。 - The firm does not espouse any single architectural expression, but strives to find that which is unique and important to a given project.
我公司并不赞同任何单一建筑表达,但始终努力寻找对于所给项目来说唯一而重要的建筑表达。 - Today, astronomers espouse the theory that comets spawn the swarms.
如今,天文学家们支持彗星产生了流星团的说法。 - Those who espouse discovery note that mathematical statements are true or false regardless of personal beliefs, suggesting that they have some external reality.
那些“发现说”的支持者们指出,数学陈述的对和错与个人的信仰无关,从而表现出某种客观现实性。 - They're all pretty good for a group of people, not least of all to the people who espouse them because they use them and find them effective.
它对于很多人来说是很好的,至少有人拥护它,因为他们利用它来达到提高效益的目的。 - These thought leaders commonly espouse the idea that there is as much mileage to be gained from harnessing strengths as there is from shoring up weaknesses.
这些思想的领袖们通常都主张发挥优势,要比治愈劣势要获得的好处多。