support
柯林斯词典
1. V-T If you support someone or their ideas or aims, you agree with them, and perhaps help them because you want them to succeed. 支持
The vice president insisted that he supported the hard-working people of New York. 副总统坚持认为他支持勤劳的纽约人民。
2. N-UNCOUNT Support is also a noun. 支持
The president gave his full support to the reforms. 该总统对改革予以了全力的支持。
3. N-UNCOUNT If you give support to someone during a difficult or unhappy time, you are kind to them and help them. (给处境困难或不幸者的) 帮助
It was hard to come to terms with her death after all the support she gave to me and the family. 她曾给我和这个家庭很大的帮助,她的去世让人难以接受。
4. N-UNCOUNT Financial support is money provided to enable an organization to continue. (给组织的) 资助
State agencies continue to cut budgets and support to a number of organizations. 国家机关继续削减对一些组织的预算和资助。
5. V-T If you support someone, you provide them with money or the things that they need. 资助; 供养
I have children to support, money to be earned, and a home to be maintained. 我有一群孩子要供,要赚钱,还要养一所房子。
6. V-T If a fact supports a statement or a theory, it helps to show that it is true or correct. 证实
The Freudian theory about daughters falling in love with their father has little evidence to support it. 弗洛伊德关于女儿恋父的理论没有什么证据来证实。
7. N-UNCOUNT Support is also a noun. 证明
The two largest powers in any system must always be major rivals. History offers some support for this view. 任何体制下的两个最高权力者必然永远是主要竞争对手。历史提供了这种观点的一些佐证。
8. V-T If something supports an object, it is underneath the object and holding it up. 支撑
...the thick wooden posts that supported the ceiling. …支撑天花板的那些粗木柱子。
9. N-COUNT A support is a bar or other object that supports something. 支撑物
Each slab was nailed to two straight wooden supports. 每块板都钉在两根垂直的木制支撑物上。
10. V-T If you support yourself, you prevent yourself from falling by holding onto something or by leaning on something. 倚着
He supported himself by means of a nearby post. 他倚在旁边的一根柱子上。
11. N-UNCOUNT Support is also a noun. 倚靠
Alice, very pale, was leaning against him as if for support. 爱丽丝脸色非常苍白,正靠在他身上,好像是在寻求倚靠。
12. V-T If you support a sports team, you always want them to win and perhaps go regularly to their games. 支持 (运动队等)
Tim, 17, supports the Knicks. 17岁的蒂姆支持尼克斯队。
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support /səˈpɔːt/ (supporting,supported,supports)
剑桥词典
- I don't support the death penalty , but if people are to be executed , it should be done humanely.
- The mass of the people support the government's reforms .
- All those who support this proposal say "Aye".
- Although I support the project in public , my private opinion is that it will fail .
- Her speech failed to sway her colleagues into supporting the plan .
- Judging by what he said, I think it's very unlikely that he'll be able to support your application .
- I thought he wasn't going to support me, but I misjudged him.
- Many Americans felt it was their patriotic duty to buy bonds to support the war effort .
- I felt a sense of betrayal when my friends refused to support me.
- The organization has peddled the myth that they are supporting the local population .
- The great and the good are calling on the government to support the arts .
- She needs a pretty high income to support her lifestyle .
- My starting salary as a newly qualified teacher wasn't enough to support a family .
- Charities depend on people supporting their activities .
- This play is supported by a grant from the local arts council .
- The frame needs to be strong enough to support the engine assembly .
- Use bamboo canes to support tomato plants .
- The stakes are pushed or hammered into the ground and can be used for marking an area , supporting a plant or forming part of a fence .
- Carefully tighten the clamp until it firmly supports the pipette in a vertical position .
- A row of reinforced concrete pillars supports the bridge .
support verb [T] (ENCOURAGE)
to agree with and give encouragement to someone or something because you want him, her, or it to succeed支持;赞成;拥护;鼓励
My father supported the LabourDemocratic Party all his life . 我父亲毕生都拥护工党/民主党。
The majority of people in the town strongly support the plans to build a new school . 镇上的大部分人都强烈支持修建新学校的计划。
I think it's important to support local businesses by buying locally . 我认为购买本地商品来支持本地企业这一点很重要。
[ 加宾语的动词后面接一个带to的不定式 ] We will always do our best to support our students to succeed .
B1 mainly UK (US usually root for)
If you support a sports team or a sports player , you want them to win , and might show it by going to watch them play .
支持(某个运动队或运动员)
Which team do you support? 你支持哪个队?
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support verb [T] (HELP)
to help someone emotionally or in a practical way(在情感或实际方面)支持,帮助
Alcoholics Anonymous is a group which supports people who are trying to stop drinking too much alcohol . 匿名戒酒会是一个帮助人们停止酗酒的机构。
My family has always supported me in whatever I've wanted to do. 无论我想做什么,我家人都一贯地支持我。
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support verb [T] (PROVIDE)
to give a person the money they need in order to buy food and clothes and pay for somewhere to live养活,抚养;供养,赡养
He has a wife and four children to support. 他得养活妻子和4个孩子。
If you support an activity or a habit , you provide the money needed to pay for it.
资助,为…提供资金;出钱维持,支付…的花费
The drug company is supporting cancer research . 这家制药公司在出钱资助癌症研究工作。
I don't know how they manage to support their expensive lifestyle . 我不知道他们是怎么设法维持自己奢侈的生活方式的。
Some drug addicts turn to crime in order to support their habit . 有些瘾君子为了维持自己的吸毒恶习而走向犯罪。
to provide the right conditions , such as enough food and water , for life
维持…的生命
The land is so poor here that it cannot support any crops . 这片土地太贫瘠,种不了任何作物。
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support verb [T] (STOP FROM FALLING)
to hold something firmly or carry its weight , especially from below to stop it from falling支撑,撑起,承受
The church dome is supported by/on marble pillars . 这个教堂的穹顶是由大理石柱子支撑的。
When babies first learn to stand , they hold on to something to support themselves (= to stop themselves from falling ). 小孩刚开始学习站立的时候,会紧紧抓住某样东西来支撑自己。
My ankle is weak , so I always put a bandage on it to support it when I play tennis . 我的脚踝很脆弱,所以打网球的时候我总是缠上绷带保护它。
figurative The Bank of England has taken measures to support the pound (= to stop it from being reduced in value ). 英格兰银行已经采取措施力挺英镑。
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support verb [T] (PROVE)
to help to show something to be true证明,证实
These figures support my argument . 这些数字证实了我的论点。
You can't make a statement like that without any supporting documentation . 在没有任何证明文件的情况下,你不能那样妄作论断。
support verb [T] (ACCEPT)
UK formal
to accept something and allow it to happen忍受,容忍
The headteacher told the boys that he would not support that kind of behaviour . 校长告诉那些男孩子,他不会容忍那样的行为。 返回 support