espoused

英 [ɪˈspaʊzd]

美 [ɪˈspaʊzd]

v.  支持，拥护，赞成(信仰、政策等)
espouse的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：espoused　过去式：espoused　

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。

双语例句

• The ideas she espoused were incomprehensible to me.
  她信奉的这些观念我一窍不通。
• He had espoused the joint use of analysis and pure geometry.
  他赞成联合运用解析几何与纯粹几何。
• In the war of Independence France espoused the cause of America.
  在美国独立战争中，法国支持美国。
• You put the lifelong espoused to me, give you say jins of sugar.
  你把终身许配我，给你称斤白砂糖。
• Now the theories espoused by those pioneers have "generally become an established component in broader urban policies".
  如今，那些先锋人物支持的这些理论，已经“普遍成为更广泛城市政策中的一个既定部分”。
• The first has been adopted by many countries but the separation of executive, legislature and judiciary has been espoused most zealously by the US.
  许多国家都采纳了前者，但美国是行政、立法与司法权分离的最积极拥护者。
• Our results suggest that moderate drinking could be viewed as a complement, rather than an alternative, to these other lifestyle interventions, a viewpoint espoused by some authors.
  我们的研究结果只是建议大家，适量饮酒可以被视为一种对其他生活干预措施的补充，但不是替代品。这一观点同时得到了许多研究者支持。
• Because of the crisis, the pendulum is swinging dangerously away from the principles Mrs Thatcher espoused.
  由于危机的出现，钟摆正在危险地摆离撒切尔夫人所拥护的原则。
• But now David Cameron, the latest leader of Britain's once rather materialistic Conservative Party, has espoused the notion of "general well-being"( GWB) as an alternative to the more traditional GDP.
  而今大卫•卡梅伦，作为一度十分崇尚物质的英国保守党的最新领导人，也提出应更加关注GWB（国内幸福指数）而不仅仅只看GDP（国内生产总值）。
• It turned out that his primary role there was to develop arguments about climate change that happened to be consistent with those espoused by oil interests.
  事实上他在那里的主要角色是制定有关气候变化的论点，而这些论点要和石油利益集团支持的观点一致。