• vt. 支持；嫁娶；贊成；信奉

e-, 緩音字母。spouse, 配偶。比喻義相互扶持，相互支持。

espouse

espouse: [15] Etymologically, to espouse something is the same as to sponsor it. Both words go back ultimately to Latin spondēre ‘promise solemnly’. From it developed late Latin spōnsāre, which produced Old French espouser, source of the English verb. It originally meant ‘promise to marry’, but this particular semantic strand has survived only in the related noun spouse, and by the 17th century the now familiar metaphorical sense ‘a(chǎn)dopt and support a cause’ had developed.
=> sponsor, spouse

espouse (v.)

mid-15c., "to take as spouse, marry," from Old French espouser "marry, take in marriage, join in marriage" (11c., Modern French épouser), from Latin sponsare, past participle of spondere "make an offering, perform a rite, promise secretly," hence "to engage oneself by ritual act" (see spondee). Extended sense of "adopt, embrace" a cause, party, etc., is from 1620s. Related: Espoused; espouses; espousing. For initial e-, see e-.

1. Some teachers enthusiastically espouse the benefits to be gained from educational software.

有些教師熱烈贊同可以從教學(xué)軟件中得到好處的觀點(diǎn).

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2. People shelve the out - of - fashion moral icon and espouse the philosophy of egoism.

擱置了人民的時尚圖標(biāo)和擁護(hù)道德哲學(xué)的利己主義.

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3. Today, astronomers espouse the theory that comets spawn the swarms.

如今, 天文學(xué)家們支持彗星產(chǎn)生了流星團(tuán)的說法.

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4. The army accuses the former separatists'party , Partai Aceh, of continuing to espouse independence.

軍隊(duì)指控原分離主義政黨,亞齊黨, 繼續(xù)支持亞齊獨(dú)立.

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5. But they, too, have been disrupted, and moderates are turning on those who espouse violence.

但他們, 同樣, 被打亂了, 和減輕轉(zhuǎn)動在那些擁護(hù)暴力.

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