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

• 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。
• 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。
• Some teachers enthusiastically espouse the benefits to be gained from educational software.
  有些教师热烈赞同可以从教学软件中得到好处的观点。
• 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。
• 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。
• Another goal was to actually use the technologies we espouse.
  另一个设计目标是真正使用我们所倡导的技术。
• 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。
• 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
• CENTRISTS espouse a "middle ground" regarding government control of the economy and personal behavior.
  中立派认为政府应该对个人和经济自由进行一定的控制。
• Vegetarianism is one cause she does not espouse.
  素食主义是她不赞成的一种主张。