espoused 支持
嫁娶
信奉(espouse的过去式、过去分词)
- They espoused the notion that all movies, domestic or imported, should be given equal opportunities and let ticket-buyers be the judge.
他们信奉这样一个观念:让所有的电影,无论是国产的还是进口的,开始都应得到相同的机会,然后再让观众来决定。 - For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
我为你们起的愤恨,原是神那样的愤恨。 因为我曾把你们许配一个丈夫,要把你们如同贞洁的童女,献给基督。 - That “Collegiate Learning Assessment, ” designed not to test student acquisition of knowledge but rather “core outcomes espoused by all of higher education, ” has three parts.
为了考察“所有高等教育产生的核心成果”而不是学生知识掌握程度的“大学生学习评估”包含三个部分。
Espouse \Es*pouse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Espoused}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Espousing}.] [OF. espouser, esposer, F. ['e]pouser,
L. sponsare to betroth, espouse, fr. sponsus betrothed, p. p.
of spondere to promise solemnly or sacredly. Cf. {Spouse}.]
1. To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.
A virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph.
--Luke i. 27.
2. To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry.
Lavinia will I make my empress, . . .
And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse. --Shak.
3. To take to one's self with a view to maintain; to make
one's own; to take up the cause of; to adopt; to embrace.
``He espoused that quarrel.'' --Bacon.
Promised faithfully to espouse his cause as soon as
he got out of the war. --Bp. Burnet.