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

• 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。
• 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 "Introduction to IT service management" series I mentioned earlier espouses the value of modeling your business processes to help achieve this.
  我在前面提到过的“IntroductiontoITservicemanagement”系列文章认为对业务流程进行建模有助于实现这个目标。
• 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。
• It is true that the core values of sharing that it espouses rely on a level of openness that does not exist on the Chinese internet.
  确实，它所推崇的分享的核心价值观，依赖于中国互联网所不具备的开放水平。
• 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。
• The left argues that the solution is more government intervention; the right espouses deregulation and consumer choice to slow cost increases and so make insurance more affordable.
  左翼人士认为解决方案在于政府的更多干预；右翼人士则支持解除管制，赞成客户选择，主张减缓价格增长，使得保险费用能够让人承受。
• It should be no surprise that so many of them despise business and the values such business espouses.
  他们中的许多人对商界及其信奉的价值观持鄙视态度，这丝毫不让人感到意外。
• 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。