espouse是什么意思_espouse怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans;"She followed the feminist movement"
"The candidate espouses Republican ideals"

take in marriage

take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one"s own;"She embraced Catholicism"
"They adopted the Jewish faith"

中英词源

espouse 支持

e-, 缓音字母。spouse, 配偶。比喻义相互扶持，相互支持。

espouse: espouse: [15] Etymologically, to espouse something is the same as to sponsor it. Both words go back ultimately to Latin spondēre ‘promise solemnly’. From it developed late Latin spōnsāre, which produced Old French espouser, source of the English verb. It originally meant ‘promise to marry’, but this particular semantic strand has survived only in the related noun spouse, and by the 17th century the now familiar metaphorical sense ‘adopt and support a cause’ had developed.
=> sponsor, spouse
espouse (v.): mid-15c., "to take as spouse, marry," from Old French espouser "marry, take in marriage, join in marriage" (11c., Modern French épouser), from Latin sponsare, past participle of spondere "make an offering, perform a rite, promise secretly," hence "to engage oneself by ritual act" (see spondee). Extended sense of "adopt, embrace" a cause, party, etc., is from 1620s. Related: Espoused; espouses; espousing. For initial e-, see e-.

词态变化

第三人称单数 espouses;
过去式 espoused;
过去分词 espoused;
现在分词 espousing;
名词 espousal;

权威造句

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Today, astronomers espouse the theory that comets spawn the swarms.: 如今, 天文学家们支持彗星产生了流星团的说法.

4. The army accuses the former separatists"party , Partai Aceh, of continuing to espouse independence.: 军队指控原分离主义政党,亚齐党, 继续支持亚齐独立.

5. 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.

近反义词

espouse someone"s quarrel 为某人鸣不平...

相似短语

espouse an idea 信仰一种思想

espouse another"s quarrel 帮别人争吵

espouse sb"s quarrel 帮着某人吵架

单词分析

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