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

• The bargaining power of these architects is buttressed by the spike in popular appreciation for architecture as an art form.
  双方的议价能力，这些建筑是建穗热门欣赏建筑作为一种艺术形式。
• 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 Market's harmony must be constantly buttressed.
  欧洲共同市场的和睦关系必须不断加强。
• 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%。
• A buttressed wharf damaged severely after collision by ship.
  某扶壁码头被船碰撞后损坏严重。
• Domestically, ethanol production has buttressed demand for corn, putting pressure on land for other crops.
  在美国国内，乙醇生产支撑了对玉米的需求，但对其它作物的用地构成了压力。
• This distribution of intrinsic value down to every individual bit of life is buttressed by Nietzsche's metaphysical claim that everything is essential.
  本质价值分布到生命中每一，单独的部分，由尼采所声称的，所有都是必须的形而上来支撑。
• That reading was buttressed yesterday by fresh figures from Japan, South Korea and China, by far the world's best performing big economy, which was already on course for economic growth of at least 8 per cent cent this year.
  昨日，来自日本、韩国和中国的最新经济数据为上述预测提供了支撑。中国是迄今全球表现最好的大型经济体正朝着今年经济增长至少8%的目标挺进。
• 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。
• 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。