espouse是什么意思？

espouse

英[ɪˈspaʊz] 美[ɪˈspaʊz]

• vt. 拥护，赞助，嫁娶；

第三人称单数：espouses;

过去式：espoused;

过去分词：espoused;

现在分词：espousing;

名词：espousal;

例句

• to espouse a cause 拥护某事业
• But they, too, have been disrupted, and moderates are turning on those who espouse violence. 但他们, 同样, 被打乱了, 和减轻转动在那些拥护暴力.
• People shelve the out - of - fashion moral icon and espouse the philosophy of egoism. 搁置了人民的时尚图标和拥护道德哲学的利己主义.
• 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.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  支持;拥护
  If you espouse a particular policy, cause, or belief, you become very interested in it and give your support to it.
  例句
  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。

英汉词典释义

• vt.
  (决定)支持,拥护(目标、主张等)
  to espouse a cause 拥护某事业 The ideas she espoused were incomprehensible to me. 她所支持的意见令我难以理解。

英英词典释义

• Verb
  1. choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans;
  "She followed the feminist movement""The candidate espouses Republican ideals"
  2. take in marriage
  3. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own;
  "She embraced Catholocism""They adopted the Jewish faith"