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

• 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。
• 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。
• The oligarchs, who by and large espouse liberal ideas, retain much power.
  大体上拥护自由主义思想的寡头们也仍握有很大的权力。
• 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。
• But not all Talons espouse the humans'extermination.
  但是不是所有的魔爪都支持杀光人类。
• Vegetarianism is one cause she does not espouse.
  素食主义是她不赞成的一种主张。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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