espouse

英 [?'spa?z; e-] 美[?'spa?z]

低頻詞TEM8GRE擴展詞匯

第三人稱單數:?espouses;過去式:?espoused;過去分詞:?espoused;現在分詞:?espousing;名詞:?espousal;

espouse 支持

e-, 緩音字母。spouse, 配偶。比喻義相互扶持，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-.

1. Some teachers enthusiastically espouse the benefits to be gained from educational software.: 有些教師熱烈贊同可以從教學軟件中得到好處的觀點.

2. People shelve the out - of - fashion moral icon and espouse the philosophy of egoism.: 擱置了人民的時尚圖標和擁護道德哲學的利己主義.

3. Today, astronomers espouse the theory that comets spawn the swarms.: 如今, 天文學家們支持彗星產生了流星團的說法.

4. The army accuses the former separatists'party , Partai Aceh, of continuing to espouse independence.: 軍隊指控原分離主義政黨,亞齊黨, 繼續支持亞齊獨立.

5. But they, too, have been disrupted, and moderates are turning on those who espouse violence.: 但他們, 同樣, 被打亂了, 和減輕轉動在那些擁護暴力.