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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。