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espouse

/ih-spouz, ih-spous/US // ɪˈspaʊz, ɪˈspaʊs //UK // (ɪˈspaʊz) //

拥护,支持,推崇,赞成

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    es·poused, es·pous·ing.

    • : to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause.
    • : Archaic. to marry.
    • : Archaic. to give or promise to give in marriage.

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Examples

  • We have sent our young to fight espousing these values, but we send them off to countries most Americans couldn’t locate on a map, and few really care about.

  • This, she said, was a walking back of the “facial freedom” the administration had previously espoused.

  • Duterte has recently started espousing vaccinations as the country’s way out of the crisis, but its inoculation program didn’t begin until March, using donated CoronaVac jabs from China.

  • Professors probably will start to “play it down the middle,” he said, and not address controversial viewpoints for fear of being accused of espousing them.

  • The constitution’s framework still espouses gender-based discrimination, particularly surrounding citizenship.

  • While these entities may find common cause in the act of sanctioning, they often espouse different goals.

  • Some espouse deaf culture as the better, more natural, way of life.

  • Meyerson is clearly perplexed by politicians who not only espouse principles but act according to them.

  • The right loves to bash New York's Citi Bike system, but bike share embodies the privatized, self-reliant ideals they espouse.

  • Instead I am going to write about the more interesting aspects of games: what sort of politics do they espouse?

  • This is the time when he was in correspondence with Modeste Mignon and wished to espouse that rich heiress.

  • He regretted that she should espouse the cause of this foreigner.

  • He was to proceed to France, espouse the bride in the king's name, and convey her to England.

  • The birds at length espouse his cause, assemble their forces, and bear him as their commander above the sky.

  • Catharine first wrote that Anjou "condescended" to marry Elizabeth; presently, that "he desired infinitely to espouse her."