espoused

英 [ɪˈspaʊzd]

美 [ɪˈspaʊzd]

v.  支持，拥护，赞成(信仰、政策等)
espouse的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：espoused　过去式：espoused　

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

• The ideas she espoused were incomprehensible to me.
  她信奉的这些观念我一窍不通。
• Croll espoused the virtues of eventual consistency.
  Croll认可了最终一致性的优点。
• Now the theories espoused by those pioneers have "generally become an established component in broader urban policies".
  如今，那些先锋人物支持的这些理论，已经“普遍成为更广泛城市政策中的一个既定部分”。
• Its support of competition and private markets, and hostility to sizable regulations, is a direct descendant of the classical liberal views, as espoused for example in Smith's Wealth of Nations.
  它支持竞争和私人市场、而反对大规模的管制，这样的态度，完全是继承了古典自由主义的看法，譬如，就像斯密的《国富论》所信奉的观点。
• Where China once espoused an egalitarian, socialist society, students today face a highly competitive system racked by underfunding and imbalances between city and countryside, China experts say.
  中国过去曾倡导一个平均主义的社会主义社会，但中国专家称，今天的学生们正面临一个高度竞争的制度，经费不足、城乡不平衡制约着这一制度。
• First and most important, we must have a clear understanding of the ideology espoused by the enemy.
  第一个，也是最重要的教训是，我们必须对敌方的意识形态有清晰的理解。
• Mr Clinton espoused a free-trade position and embraced globalisation through his presidency.
  克林顿采取了支持自由贸易的立场，并在他的总统任期内始终支持全球化。
• Tea and Opium is an important book of global history, a Chinese response to the global history research as espoused by historians worldwide.
  《茶叶与***》是全球史研究的一部力作，也是对国际史学界关于全球史研究的一个呼应。
• That crafty prince was espoused three times.
  那位狡黠的君主结过三次婚。
• In the war of Independence France espoused the cause of America.
  在美国独立战争中，法国支持美国。