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

• It is not just the courses 'participants and tutors who espouse the importance of creative writing techniques in business.
  不仅仅是课程的参与者和老师倡导创意性写作技巧在商业中的重要性。
• Yet it suggests that they have not been driven by the lofty ideals that Mr Brin and Mr Page espouse.
  然而，它确实暗示，赫尔利和陈士骏没有被布林和佩奇推崇的那种高尚理想打动。
• 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。
• 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。
• On the Genesis and Transformation of Mencius Reconstructive Theory of Literary Interpretation; Actually, a lot of feminist quotes have been taken out of context, and there are many different branches of feminism which espouse different ideals.
  从断章取义到以意逆志&孟子复原式解释理论的产生与演变事实上，女权主义者的言论屡遭断章取义；而且，女权主义也有诸多流派，信奉不同的理念。
• 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。
• But not all Talons espouse the humans'extermination.
  但是不是所有的魔爪都支持杀光人类。
• 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。
• 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）。
• It stands as a challenge to other nations to live by the principles they espouse.
  它是对其它国家提出的挑战，要求它们遵循自身所信奉的准则。