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embrace

/em-breys/US // ɛmˈbreɪs //UK // (ɪmˈbreɪs) //

拥抱,怀抱,搂抱,搂着

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    em·braced, em·brac·ing.

    • : to take or clasp in the arms; press to the bosom; hug.
    • : to take or receive gladly or eagerly; accept willingly: to embrace an idea.
    • : to avail oneself of: to embrace an opportunity.
    • : to adopt: to embrace Buddhism.
    • : to take in with the eye or the mind.
    • : to encircle; surround; enclose.
    • : to include or contain: An encyclopedia embraces a great number of subjects.
v.无主动词 verb
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    em·braced, em·brac·ing.

    • : to join in an embrace.
n.名词 noun
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    • : an act or instance of embracing.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbhold tightly in one's arms
Forms: embraced, embraces, embracing
verbinclude in one's beliefs; take into account
Forms: embraced, embraces, embracing

Examples

  • The Washington Post’s Christopher Ingraham documented research showing how Republicans were far more likely than Democrats to embrace “democratic backsliding” — a “retreat from upholding democratic norms,” as one expert put it.

  • This is a senior elected official in a large state, embracing the idea that what happened at the Capitol wasn’t what happened at the Capitol.

  • For that, you need a story, a philosophy embraced in the scented candle industry, which has been booming in the pandemic.

  • She cares about nothing more than getting back to where she came from, even as 2001’s Dullea is in flight, accepting his exile and even embracing it.

  • First Amendment devotees embraced him as “the Horatio Alger of the sexual revolution,” as a New York Times article once put it.

  • Is there any chance the potential 2016 hopeful will stand up to the right and embrace paid sick leave?

  • The question is will we see regime changes in both Hamas and Israel that embrace a lasting peace?

  • We happily hoist our egg nog in the air, embrace each other, and raise our out-of-tune voices in song.

  • For Sanders to do that, he said, “he would have to embrace a radically different form of politics.”

  • Wellington, New Zealand Our Oceania pick is the latest city to wholeheartedly embrace the global Brooklyn movement.

  • That embrace, that grin and that heart-born exclamation marked the entrance of the Pulsifer family into my life.

  • Covenanting, whether Personal or Social, ought to embrace present and permanent duty.

  • Tim seized it, but he brought his other arm around her waist and lifted her from the floor in one mighty embrace.

  • We will accept it gladly, Maurille, and I must embrace you because you nursed the mother of her whom I love best on earth.

  • Jessie felt an inclination to embrace the speaker who had quite innocently helped her out of the hole.