espouse

verb

1. 支持，拥护，赞成（信仰、政策等）
   to give your support to a belief, policy etc.
   1. They espoused the notion of equal opportunity for all in education.
      他们赞同在教育方面人人机会均等的观念。

1. VERB 支持;拥护
   If you espouse a particular policy, cause, or belief, you become very interested in it and give your support to it.
   1. She ran away with him to Mexico and espoused the revolutionary cause.
      她跟着他逃到墨西哥，并支持革命事业。

1. She ran away with him to Mexico and espoused the revolutionary cause.
   她跟着他逃到墨西哥，并支持革命事业。
2. Another goal was to actually use the technologies we espouse.
   另一个设计目标是真正使用我们所倡导的技术。
3. There's little doubt in my mind that other frameworks and programming paradigms will espouse these ideas.
   我认为，其他框架和编程范例将毫无疑问地支持这些思想。
4. We espouse gender equality in all other aspects of life, and it is an anomaly that in the rules relating to the highest public officer we continue to enshrine male superiority, Cameron wrote.
   我们在生活中的其他方面都尊重男女平等，而在涉及到最高公职人员时我们继续把男权奉为神明，这是一种反常现象。
5. Self-help books that espouse clever chat-up lines, psychological mind-games and manipulation of body language actually make it harder to find a soulmate, it was said.
   据称，自助手册中建议的妙语连珠、心理游戏以及肢体语言，这些手段的运用事实上反而会增加觅得意中人的难度。
6. But the ideas they espouse about how to handle recessions were rejected by nearly all economists after the disasters of the 1930s. It is tragic that in recent years the old ideas have again taken root.
   但这些人关于如何应对衰退所持有的观点，是上世纪30年代金融灾难后被几乎所有经济学家所否定的。可悲的是，近年来，这些老思想又卷土重来。
7. But that same Teddy Roosevelt was the first president to espouse national healthcare, while Mr Huntsman, a former Utah governor, advocated repeal of ObamaCare during the Republican primaries.
   但西奥多•罗斯福是首位支持全民医保的美国总统，而曾任犹他州州长的洪博培在共和党初选期间却曾主张废除奥巴马医改（Obamacare）。
8. The oligarchs, who by and large espouse liberal ideas, retain much power.
   大体上拥护自由主义思想的寡头们也仍握有很大的权力。
9. We either espouse the pretensions of our forebears in new and subtle ways, or knowingly subvert them to show how little we care for bourgeois values ( while remaining resolutely bourgeois).
   我们不是以全新微妙的方式奉行先祖们繁文缛节的那一套，就是有意颠覆之，表明对这套布尔乔亚的价值观多么不屑一顾（同时依然信守布尔乔亚式的生活）。
10. Yet it suggests that they have not been driven by the lofty ideals that Mr Brin and Mr Page espouse.
    然而，它确实暗示，赫尔利和陈士骏没有被布林和佩奇推崇的那种高尚理想打动。
11. These thought leaders commonly espouse the idea that there is as much mileage to be gained from harnessing strengths as there is from shoring up weaknesses.
    这些思想的领袖们通常都主张发挥优势，要比治愈劣势要获得的好处多。
12. But not all Talons espouse the humans'extermination.
    但是不是所有的魔爪都支持杀光人类。
13. CENTRISTS espouse a "middle ground" regarding government control of the economy and personal behavior.
    中立派认为政府应该对个人和经济自由进行一定的控制。
14. It stands as a challenge to other nations to live by the principles they espouse.
    它是对其它国家提出的挑战，要求它们遵循自身所信奉的准则。
15. Vegetarianism is one cause she does not espouse.
    素食主义是她不赞成的一种主张。
16. On the Genesis and Transformation of Mencius Reconstructive Theory of Literary Interpretation; Actually, a lot of feminist quotes have been taken out of context, and there are many different branches of feminism which espouse different ideals.
    从断章取义到以意逆志&孟子复原式解释理论的产生与演变事实上，女权主义者的言论屡遭断章取义；而且，女权主义也有诸多流派，信奉不同的理念。
17. They're all pretty good for a group of people, not least of all to the people who espouse them because they use them and find them effective.
    它对于很多人来说是很好的，至少有人拥护它，因为他们利用它来达到提高效益的目的。
18. Today, astronomers espouse the theory that comets spawn the swarms.
    如今，天文学家们支持彗星产生了流星团的说法。
19. The Chinese people on both sides of the Straits all believe that there is only one China and espouse national reunification. taiwan's status as an inalienable part of China has been determined and cannot be changed. "self-determination" for Taiwan is out of the question.
    海峡两岸的中国人民都主张只有一个中国，都拥护国家的统一，台湾作为中国不可分割的一部分的地位是确定的、不能改变的，不存在什么“自决”的问题。
20. It would be irresponsible to espouse such radicalism if an alternative might work.
    如果还有其他方案可能管用，支持这样的激进主义就是不负责任的。
21. Some teachers enthusiastically espouse the benefits to be gained from educational software.
    有些教师热烈赞同可以从教学软件中得到好处的观点。
22. True knights in shining armour, in principle at least, these men espouse the noble ideals of chivalry and honour.
    精英类型：后期专业部队骑士们穿著光亮的装甲，至少，这些人骑士拥有高尚荣誉的理想。
23. Don't tell off-color jokes, reveal company secrets, gossip about co-workers or espouse your views on race, religion or the boss'personality.
    不要讲低俗的笑话、泄露公司机密、讲同事的闲话或宣扬你关于种族、宗教的观点或你老板的人格。
24. There has been a lot of doom and gloom about the Chinese role in the world economy, especially about China's propensity to record large trade surpluses and its alleged refusal to espouse a policy of raising the value of the renminbi and boosting domestic demand.
    中国在世界经济中扮演的角色有许多不光彩之处，特别是它追求巨额贸易顺差，并被指拒绝采纳让人民币升值和扩大内需的政策。
25. It is not just the courses 'participants and tutors who espouse the importance of creative writing techniques in business.
    不仅仅是课程的参与者和老师倡导创意性写作技巧在商业中的重要性。
26. Those who espouse discovery note that mathematical statements are true or false regardless of personal beliefs, suggesting that they have some external reality.
    那些“发现说”的支持者们指出，数学陈述的对和错与个人的信仰无关，从而表现出某种客观现实性。
27. The firm does not espouse any single architectural expression, but strives to find that which is unique and important to a given project.
    我公司并不赞同任何单一建筑表达，但始终努力寻找对于所给项目来说唯一而重要的建筑表达。
28. Whether Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Espouse Confucianism as the Orthodox State Ideology: still on the Thoughtway
    论汉武帝是否独尊儒术&也谈思想方法问题

verb

1. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
   1. She embraced Catholicism
   2. They adopted the Jewish faith

   Synonym:    embraceadoptsweep up

2. choose and follow
   1. She followed the feminist movement
   2. The candidate espouses Republican ideals

   Synonym:    adoptfollow

3. take in marriage

   Synonym:    marryget marriedwedconjoinhook up withget hitched with