espouses

英 [ɪˈspaʊzɪz]

美 [ɪˈspaʊzɪz]

v.  支持，拥护，赞成(信仰、政策等)
espouse的第三人称单数

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

• Secondly, describing "Islam" as "moderate" is tautological since they are one and the same. Islam itself is moderate because of the values it espouses.
  第二、形容回教为中庸是不必要的，回教所提倡的价值观显示它原本就是一个温和的宗教。
• The problem is, software development projects typically take place in a corporate environment that espouses the classic approach to corporate management.
  问题是，软件开发项目通常发生在一个共同的环境中，这种环境支持典型的共同管理方法。
• This had a lot to do with the time that it takes to build up trust and confidence, as well as with the'new'participatory way of working that Oxfam espouses.
  要建立互信和信心，并推行乐施会提倡的「新的」参与式工作方式，实在需要很多时间。
• America's new counter-insurgency doctrine espouses similar ideas about the need for "unity of effort" in military and civilian activity.
  美国新的平叛原则采纳了有关于在军事与平民活动中“统一努力”的类似理念。
• Neward also uses real-world analogies effectively to show the simple logic underlying principles he espouses.
  Neward使用现实世界的类似例子说明原则下的潜在逻辑。
• And that is why child-rearing of the sort Ms Chua espouses is a closet practice.
  这就是为什么蔡美儿推崇的育儿方式只能是一种闭门做法。
• After all, it seems profoundly bizarre to have the state underpinning housing so deeply, in a country that espouses free-market ideals.
  毕竟，在一个赞成自由市场理念的国家，政府如此深入地支持住宅行业，看上去非常奇怪。
• The belief that women are so powerless that we somehow need to "trap" a man is sexist, even if it is a woman who espouses this belief.
  那些认为女人是弱小的、某种程度上我们应该“诱捕”男人的人，是性别歧视者，即便是那些坚信这种想法的女人也一样。
• He believes America espouses a doctrine of the legal equality of nations that is essentially hypocritical; far better to be open about the realities of power an idea that has its roots deep in the Chinese notion of their own country as the "Middle Kingdom".
  他认为，美国所支持的各国在法律上地位平等的原则，本质上是伪善的，远不如坦然接受世界存在强权的现实这一观点植根于中国人认为自己国家是“中央王国”的观念中。
• The concept, drawing from evolution, espouses the philosophy of survival of the fittest.
  从进化角度来看，这一概念奉行“适者生存”的哲学。