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

• That crafty prince was espoused three times.
  那位狡黠的君主结过三次婚。
• 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）。
• Some of his colleagues knew that Winston Churchill had same convictions and ideals in his private life as he espoused with his brilliant oratory in the public life.
  丘吉尔的一些同事都知道他在私人生活中仍旧延续着他在面对公众的非凡演讲中所展示的信念与理想。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。