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es·pouse
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第三人称单数:espouses
现在分词:espousing
过去式:espoused
过去分词:espoused
espouser (n.)
词根:espouse
n.espousal 拥护;信奉;订婚
Verb
1. choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans;
"She followed the feminist movement"
"The candidate espouses Republican ideals"
2. take in marriage
3. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own;
"She embraced Catholocism"
"They adopted the Jewish faith"
15世纪中期,“娶为配偶,结婚”,源自古法语 espouser “结婚,迎娶,加入婚姻”(11世纪,现代法语 épouser),源自拉丁语 sponsare,过去分词 spondere “献祭,执行仪式,秘密承诺”,因此“通过仪式行为承诺自己”(参见 sponsor(n.))。 “采纳,拥护”某个事业,党派等的扩展意义始于1620年代。 相关: Espoused; espouses; espousing。关于 e- 的最初含义,请参见 e-。
Middle English, from Anglo-French espuser, from Late Latin sponsare to betroth, from Latin sponsus betrothed — more at spouse
The first known use of espouse was in the 15th century
essayistnoun
a writer of essays
-essnoun suffix
female
priestess
esquirenoun
a member of the English gentry ranking immediately below a knight
one who wants to become a knight and who works as a servant to a knight
—used as a title of courtesy usually placed in its abbreviated form after the surname
John Smith, Esq.
espyverb
to catch sight of
espritnoun
lively cleverness or wit
espressonoun
coffee brewed by forcing steam or hot water through finely ground darkly roasted coffee beans
espouseverb
marry entry 1 sense 2
marry entry 1 sense 3
to take up the cause of : support
espouseverb
marry entry 1 sense 2
marry entry 1 sense 3
to take up the cause of : support
1 A few years ago, my elder daughter had a friend from a strict conservative religious background whose family openly espoused creationism.
2 While espousing the credo of the “advanced woman,” the tempestuous Julia remains tethered to bourgeois conventions like weddings.
3 I am sure they do believe passionately in the causes they espouse.
我相信他们热切地信奉着自己所支持的事业。
4 And so all too often, we get medieval women espousing sexual liberation or spunky Roman slaves who speak like 21st-century comics.
5 Especially galling is the stridency espoused by random high school and college classmates whose opinions are no more informed than anyone else reading — thanks to social media — the same articles as everyone else.
6 If consumers espouse frugality instead of ostentatious spending, Amex wants to be there.
如果消费者不求斥金如土,但望勤俭持家,运通也希望一路有它。
7 “No one mentioned that Obama was talking about a health-care plan like the one Romney, and Nixon before him, had espoused.”
8 In principle it is hard to argue with what Mr. Gelb espouses.
9 In the 1930s, Sylvanus G. Morley of Harvard, probably the most celebrated Mayanist of his day, espoused what is still the best-known theory: The Maya collapsed because they overshot the carrying capacity of their environment.
10 Charismatic, espousing all the correct liberal ideals — free tuition, income equality — Victor is a political animal, and Lena suspects him of having been involved with Maria P.’s apparently accidental death.
11 The university president espoused the idea of academic freedom.
该大学校长拥护学术自由.
12 While waiting for a sub, the artist sat on a bench espousing Pedro as people around him casually rubber-necked in recognition.
13 Women and girls are under enormous societal pressure to be thin and that pressure is even harder to bear when a parent also espouses those ideals.
14 Kevorkian, and others who shared his character, publicly espoused euthanasia, and that was a horrible public situation for the supporters of the right-to-die movement.
15 To an extent, he was wishing to escape from himself into nature, the Romantic Nature espoused by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth when they lived in the Quantocks.
16 Logic is an unrepentant optimist, an up-by-his-bootstraps teacher’s pet who espouses the gospel of positivity.
17 Asked by host Jake Tapper about whether he had ever espoused conspiracy theories involving the 9/11 attacks, Paul called the idea “nonsense.”
18 There's little doubt in my mind that other frameworks and programming paradigms will espouse these ideas.
我认为,其他框架和编程范例将毫无疑问地支持这些思想。
19 Moore's greatest student, Anthony Caro, espoused a comparable horizontality in his brightly painted steel sculptures, and he frequently chose pastoral titles, such as Early One Morning and Month of May.
20 And there’s a number of other social justice issues held by conservatives that would not be comfortable for us to espouse in the pages of our newsletter.
3 赞成
approving positively approval assent commendation acclamation behind pro second agree recognize approve dig countenance fall in with subscribe to hold with
5 结婚
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7 主张
voice allegation advocacy contention pretension claim talk lay advocate assert contend avouch make the point that plead for make a plea for
8 拥护
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10 与…结婚
11 支持
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12 采纳
13 采取