buttress
英 ['b?tr?s]
美['b?tr?s]
- n. 扶壁；拱壁；支撐物
- vt. 支持；以扶壁支撐
GRE低頻詞暢通詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?buttresses;第三人稱單數(shù):?buttresses;過去式:?buttressed;過去分詞:?buttressed;現(xiàn)在分詞:?buttressing;
中文詞源
buttress 支墩
來(lái)自butt, 相撞，相接。-ess, 通常為陰性后綴，此處為名詞后綴，見largess, 慷慨。
英文詞源
- buttress (n.)
- early 14c., from Old French (arc) botrez "flying buttress," apparently from bouter "to thrust against," of Frankish origin (compare Old Norse bauta "to strike, beat"), from Proto-Germanic *butan, from PIE root *bhau- "to strike" (see butt (v.)).
- buttress (v.)
- late 14c., literal and figurative, from buttress (n.). Related: Buttressed; buttressing.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. He sought to buttress some of his arguments with quotations from Mein Kampf.
- 他引用《我的奮斗》中的語(yǔ)錄來(lái)論證自己的觀點(diǎn)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. She would continue, faithful and reliable, to buttress up Miss Bulstrode's successor.
- 她會(huì)繼續(xù)干下去, 忠心而可靠, 給接替布爾斯特羅德小姐的人以支持.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 3. The massive - head buttress dam has some attractive features for certain locations.
- 大頭支墩壩對(duì)于某些地區(qū)仍有其值得注意的特色.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 4. I don't think they have any buttress behind them.
- 我認(rèn)為他們背后沒有什么支持力量.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 5. In the 1980 s this concept was used to buttress several so - called sectoral reciprocity proposals.
- 80年代這一原則曾被用來(lái)支持幾個(gè) 所謂 部分互惠建議.
來(lái)自英漢非文學(xué) - 政府文件