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

• 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。
• The ideas she espoused were incomprehensible to me.
  她信奉的这些观念我一窍不通。
• This barefooted, often whipped child growing up espoused the cause of the Indian revolution and then that of the people of China.
  这个幼年赤着双脚，时常挨打的姑娘成年了，先是支持印度的革命事业，然后又和中国人民的事业结下了不解之缘。
• 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。
• P.Thompson berated him as a traitor to the noble socialist ideals that he once espoused.
  汤普森等强力左翼人士指责柯拉柯夫斯基背叛了他曾一度信奉的社会主义高贵理念。
• The first has been adopted by many countries but the separation of executive, legislature and judiciary has been espoused most zealously by the US.
  许多国家都采纳了前者，但美国是行政、立法与司法权分离的最积极拥护者。
• But now David Cameron, the latest leader of Britain's once rather materialistic Conservative Party, has espoused the notion of "general well-being"( GWB) as an alternative to the more traditional GDP.
  而今大卫•卡梅伦，作为一度十分崇尚物质的英国保守党的最新领导人，也提出应更加关注GWB（国内幸福指数）而不仅仅只看GDP（国内生产总值）。
• He had espoused the joint use of analysis and pure geometry.
  他赞成联合运用解析几何与纯粹几何。
• Because of the crisis, the pendulum is swinging dangerously away from the principles Mrs Thatcher espoused.
  由于危机的出现，钟摆正在危险地摆离撒切尔夫人所拥护的原则。