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

• 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。
• It turned out that his primary role there was to develop arguments about climate change that happened to be consistent with those espoused by oil interests.
  事实上他在那里的主要角色是制定有关气候变化的论点，而这些论点要和石油利益集团支持的观点一致。
• Coyle makes a particularly effective assault on the view, often espoused by environmentalists, that economic growth ought not to be a policy goal.
  科伊尔尤其有效地驳斥了常常为环保主义者所推崇的一个观点，即经济增长不能作为政策目标。
• For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
  2我为你们起的愤恨，原是神那样的愤恨。因为我曾把你们许配一个丈夫，要把你们如同贞洁的童女，献给基督。
• The ideas she espoused were incomprehensible to me.
  她信奉的这些观念我一窍不通。
• His investing philosophy may sound like that espoused by the sage of Omaha.
  他的投资哲学，听起来可能与巴菲特推崇的投资理念有些相似。
• 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。
• 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）。
• 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。
• 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”。