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

• 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。
• You put the lifelong espoused to me, give you say jins of sugar.
  你把终身许配我，给你称斤白砂糖。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Corporate integrity is not simply a noble principle espoused at the top levels of corporate management.
  公司的正直不仅是管理高层所支持的高贵原则。
• Argentines should note that Brazil's centre-left government has espoused fiscal prudence and free trade and welcomed foreign investment.
  阿根廷应当注意到巴西的中左政府慎重对待经济数据、赞同自由贸易及欢迎国外投资。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。