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underpin

/uhn-der-pin/US // ˌʌn dərˈpɪn //UK // (ˌʌndəˈpɪn) //

支撑,支持,支撑着,支撑的

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    un·der·pinned, un·der·pin·ning.

    • : to prop up or support from below; strengthen, as by reinforcing a foundation.
    • : to replace or strengthen the foundation of.
    • : to furnish a foundation for; corroborate: The author's conclusions are underpinned by references to experimental findings.

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Examples

  • This year’s program focuses on the road ahead for the technology that underpins our lives and businesses, including AI, biomedicine, cloud, and cybersecurity.

  • Changes in the technology underpinning the system have allowed Google to double the warning time it is now providing, giving people detailed alerts up to 48 hours before flooding occurs.

  • He was also a key pioneer of the business model that helps underpin “commission-free” stock brokerage for everyday traders.

  • The idea underpinning the computer scientists’ proposal is that consumers’ digital data is a form of unpaid labor.

  • Business publications have the access, the context, and the duty to tease out the financial forces underpinning all of these problems.

  • It is also their pattern to ignore the political problems that underpin the bad military performances of our “good guys.”

  • And dangerous because the Treasury securities that comprise that credit underpin much of the operations of the American economy.

  • Serious settlements had taken place, and rendered it necessary to underpin the walls.

  • They found the hole in which Mrs. Higgs had stepped, and the pole which had been used to underpin the middle boards.

  • We underpin our houses with granite; what 30 of our habits and our lives?

  • I resumed: Further we must underpin the runners and work up the earth herring-wise.

  • There were laws upon laws, endeavours to underpin the framework of a decaying society.