Espouse
[ is'pauz ]
第5级
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vt. 拥护;赞助;嫁娶;
📝 例句
The ideas she espoused were incomprehensible to me.
她信奉的这些观念我一窍不通。
espouse the cause of socialism
拥护社会主义事业
Today, astronomers espouse the theory that comets spawn the swarms.
如今，天文学家们支持彗星产生了流星团的说法。
to espouse the idea of freedom
拥护自由的理想
🌱 联想助记
【记】※谐音“已死报之”:非常拥护他,准备以死报答他
※spouse-配偶,espouse-支持:前任配偶在大选中支持他
✅ 同义词
🔤 词根
-spond-表示“应答”
📖 牛津释义
espouse
v[Tn]
(fml 文) give one's support to (a cause, theory, etc) 支持, 拥护（某主张、 理论等）
espousing feminism 拥护女权主义.
🔁 扩展释义
*[i'spauz]vt. 支持, 赞成, 嫁, 娶【法】 娶, 出嫁, 信奉
🌿 同词根单词
📖 同为「GMAT」词汇
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They don't ask how much someone paid for something.
他们不问别人买某个东西要花多少钱。
Many hands make quick work.
人多干活快。
and we have only to turn to that extraordinary discovery of echo-location in bats to see a case in which the voice plays a strictly utilitarian role.
我们只要看一看蝙蝠回声定位这一极不寻常的发现，就可以探究一下声音在什么情况下有绝对的实用价值。