undergird 的定义
un·der·gird·ed or un·der·girt, un·der·gird·ing.
- to strengthen; secure, as by passing a rope or chain under and around: to undergird a top-heavy load.
- to give fundamental support; provide with a sound or secure basis: ethics undergirded by faith.
undergird 近义词
等同于 support
更多undergird例句
- The demonstrators in Washington want to take those foundational principles, principles that have undergirded this nation for 250 years, and toss them out.
- These include the commands undergirding such basic intracellular activities as how energy is derived from hydrocarbon molecules, and the coding system by which nucleic acids are translated into proteins.
- Quiroga contends that we can form and use these memories in ways unique to us, without the pattern separation seen in many other species, undergirding what makes us special.
- The West has long marveled at the business empire built by Tencent, whose ubiquitous everything-app, WeChat, undergirds so much of daily life in China.
- Liu has denied that geopolitics undergird his work, but Fan writes that when the book was published “the models for Trisolaris and Earth were immediately apparent.”
- But the austerity policies that this research helped undergird are still alive and well.
- To the contrary, he views them as essential to restoring the economic strength that must undergird that power.
- Multiplied to infinity, choices no longer undergird values, but options that are equally mediocre.
- In this universe, literacy and religion undergird the legal system.