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

• Vegetarianism is one cause she does not espouse.
  素食主义是她不赞成的一种主张。
• 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。
• But that same Teddy Roosevelt was the first president to espouse national healthcare, while Mr Huntsman, a former Utah governor, advocated repeal of ObamaCare during the Republican primaries.
  但西奥多•罗斯福是首位支持全民医保的美国总统，而曾任犹他州州长的洪博培在共和党初选期间却曾主张废除奥巴马医改（Obamacare）。
• 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。
• 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。
• True knights in shining armour, in principle at least, these men espouse the noble ideals of chivalry and honour.
  精英类型：后期专业部队骑士们穿著光亮的装甲，至少，这些人骑士拥有高尚荣誉的理想。
• But the ideas they espouse about how to handle recessions were rejected by nearly all economists after the disasters of the 1930s. It is tragic that in recent years the old ideas have again taken root.
  但这些人关于如何应对衰退所持有的观点，是上世纪30年代金融灾难后被几乎所有经济学家所否定的。可悲的是，近年来，这些老思想又卷土重来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。