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

• 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）。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• That crafty prince was espoused three times.
  那位狡黠的君主结过三次婚。
• The ideas she espoused were incomprehensible to me.
  她信奉的这些观念我一窍不通。