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　

GRETEM8法律

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.
  1. 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。

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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

verb

• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
  1. She embraced Catholicism
  2. They adopted the Jewish faith
  Synonym:embraceadoptsweep up
• choose and follow
  1. She followed the feminist movement
  2. The candidate espouses Republican ideals
  Synonym:adoptfollow
• take in marriage
  Synonym:marryget marriedwedconjoinhook up withget hitched with

双语例句

• Vegetarianism is one cause she does not espouse.
  素食主义是她不赞成的一种主张。
• 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。
• 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。
• There has been a lot of doom and gloom about the Chinese role in the world economy, especially about China's propensity to record large trade surpluses and its alleged refusal to espouse a policy of raising the value of the renminbi and boosting domestic demand.
  中国在世界经济中扮演的角色有许多不光彩之处，特别是它追求巨额贸易顺差，并被指拒绝采纳让人民币升值和扩大内需的政策。
• We either espouse the pretensions of our forebears in new and subtle ways, or knowingly subvert them to show how little we care for bourgeois values ( while remaining resolutely bourgeois).
  我们不是以全新微妙的方式奉行先祖们繁文缛节的那一套，就是有意颠覆之，表明对这套布尔乔亚的价值观多么不屑一顾（同时依然信守布尔乔亚式的生活）。
• 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。
• But not all Talons espouse the humans'extermination.
  但是不是所有的魔爪都支持杀光人类。
• Self-help books that espouse clever chat-up lines, psychological mind-games and manipulation of body language actually make it harder to find a soulmate, it was said.
  据称，自助手册中建议的妙语连珠、心理游戏以及肢体语言，这些手段的运用事实上反而会增加觅得意中人的难度。
• But the ideas they espouse about how to handle recessions were rejected by nearly all economists after the disasters of the 1930s. It is tragic that in recent years the old ideas have again taken root.
  但这些人关于如何应对衰退所持有的观点，是上世纪30年代金融灾难后被几乎所有经济学家所否定的。可悲的是，近年来，这些老思想又卷土重来。
• 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。