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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Don't tell off-color jokes, reveal company secrets, gossip about co-workers or espouse your views on race, religion or the boss'personality.
  不要讲低俗的笑话、泄露公司机密、讲同事的闲话或宣扬你关于种族、宗教的观点或你老板的人格。
• Vegetarianism is one cause she does not espouse.
  素食主义是她不赞成的一种主张。
• 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）。
• 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。
• True knights in shining armour, in principle at least, these men espouse the noble ideals of chivalry and honour.
  精英类型：后期专业部队骑士们穿著光亮的装甲，至少，这些人骑士拥有高尚荣誉的理想。
• 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