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supporting

US // (səˈpɔːtɪŋ) //

支持,支持性,支援,支助

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : being a fairly important but not leading part, esp in a play or film
    • : playing a supporting role

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Examples

  • “I heard Jeffrey was interested in supporting science and I contacted him,” Krauss said.

  • What stuck in my mind were the two supporting actors, Gloria Grahame and Lee Marvin.

  • “Lack of forward firing ordnance in a CAS supporting aircraft is a major handicap,” he added.

  • The risks are too high to warrant supporting public marriage proposals.

  • Fruitcake quickly acclimated to its American home, and even plays a supporting role in American literature.

  • Nowhere can be found a region capable of supporting a larger population to the square mile than Lombardy.

  • The narrow individualism of the nineteenth century refused to recognize the social duty of supporting somebody else's grandmother.

  • Her men can lie in Grenoble gaol to be dealt with by yourself for supporting her in an attempt to resist the Queen's authority.

  • Ought they to join themselves with the people of the lands wherein they dwell, in supporting thrones of iniquity?

  • It would be easy to multiply individual cases supporting the same general principles.