buttressed

英 [ˈbʌtrəst]

美 [ˈbʌtrəst]

v.  支持; 给…以力量
buttress的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：buttressed　

柯林斯词典

• 扶壁；撑墙；扶垛
  Buttressesare supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.
• VERB 加强（论点或制度）；支持（某人）
  Tobuttressan argument, system, or person means to give them support and strength.
  1. He sought to buttress some of his arguments with quotations from Mein Kampf...
     他引用《我的奋斗》中的语录来论证自己的观点。
  2. The president's tough line is, however, buttressed by a democratic mandate.
     然而，总统推行的强硬路线受到了民主党发布的训令的支持。

英英释义

adj

• held up by braces or buttresses
  Synonym:braced

双语例句

• Above all, their claim to scientific rigour buttressed by models and equations must be treated much more sceptically.
  首先，人们必须以更加怀疑的眼光，看待他们由模型和方程式支持的所谓科学严谨。
• Stimulated both by supply and demand, buttressed with trust by the society, librarianship in America will continue to flourish.
  因此由于供求的循环冲击，并受到社会的公信，美国图书馆业将继续迈进。
• Even the anaemic world recovery predicted by the IMF is buttressed by a total fiscal deficit of 10 per cent of GDP in these countries this year and 9 per cent in 2010.
  即使是IMF预测的无力的全球复苏，也是由发达国家财政赤字支撑的：今年这些国家的财政赤字总计占GDP的10%，明年则占9%。
• The Europeans ( buttressed by a few experts from poor countries) are there to explicate, and are set up as good guys and bad guys.
  欧洲人（在少数几名穷国专家的支撑下）的作用是摆在那里作为说明，而且被分为好人和坏人两类。
• Trees, often very large and buttressed, rarely shrubs.
  乔木，通常非常大和板根，很少灌木。
• Far more important, the invasion massively buttressed the old rejectionist thesis that America's aim was to divide and rule the Muslim world, to control its oil and to impose Western culture.
  远更为重要的是，美国的入侵很大程度上支持了老拒绝派论点，即美国的目标是对穆斯林世界分而治之，控制其石油并强加其西方文化。
• He buttressed up the argument with lots of solid facts.
  他以大量确凿的事实支持这个论点。
• The government buttressed up its power to control rents by new laws.
  政府用新的法律来加强权力，以控制租金。
• My optimism is buttressed by the experiences shown by the Chinese communities overseas, be it yokohama, New York or london, where the new year spirit is still very much alive, notwithstanding their entirely different social and cultural environments.
  一些外国华人社区的经验，例如横滨、纽约和伦敦，是让我感到乐观的原因。这些地方的华人社区，新春的气氛都依然浓烈。当然，这和它们所处的社会和文化环境有关。
• The court buttressed its decision.
  法院支持自己的判决。