espoused
v.
（决定）支持，拥护（目标、主张等）( espouse的过去式和过去分词 );
例句:
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He espoused Eleanor, dowager of William Earl of Pembroke.
来自D. Hume
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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。
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The ideas she espoused were incomprehensible to me.
她所支持的意见令我难以理解.
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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。
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Both of them, as it happened, were espoused by Dutchmen.
来自NEWYORKER
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Thatcher had no time for those who espoused a traditional, moderate Toryism.
来自THETIMES