| 单词 | support |
| 释义 | sup·port I. 1. < wondered how he could support the sun, even with his helmet — Paul Bowles > 2. a. (1) < the art work of the federal agencies has been supported enthusiastically — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < an established judicial system supported by the executive power of the state — John MacNeill > (2) < would support the principle of arbitration — C.L.Jones > < the treaties … represent public opinion … and will be supported by the people — Vera M. Dean > (3) < he refused to support the … party's choice — Gay Talese > < supported increasing the base pay of servicemen — Current Biography > also < he supported the administration … in practically all its major measures — T.P.Abernethy > < the state delegation … supported him on the first ballot — G.S.Dumke > b. (1) < scattered eight hits, walked three and fanned two as his mates supported him brilliantly in the field — Deane McGowen > < body of … missionaries and businessmen, supported rather than led by a handful of politicians — D.W.Brogan > (2) < a base-building and base-stocking operation to support the great air and cross-channel attacks — G.A.Lincoln > < ahead of his main line, where they could not be supported by the rest of the troops — Tom Wintringham > < mortars and machine guns supported the attack > (3) < the mayor … will attend the old Parish Church, supported by the Council and civic bodies, in state — Austin Edwards > (4) (5) < the orchestral sound was always strong enough to support the voices — Irving Kolodin > (6) c. (1) < historic evidence supports such guesses — Brewton Berry > also < his alibi that he had been home all afternoon … was supported by neighbors — Woody Klein > (2) < tests, keys, teachers' manuals, and the like, to support and supplement their textbooks — Textbooks in Education > 3. a. < the association is supported financially by membership dues — Helen T. Geer > < few graduate students support their studies from personal funds — M.H.Trytten > also < supports his own and his brother's family > b. < the island could probably support three, though no more — A.B.C.Whipple > < the flax crop supports an important linen industry — Samuel Van Valkenburg & Ellsworth Huntington > < to support study and research … these are … the outstanding collection of microfilm reproductions — University of Michigan Bulletin > c. < the town supports a grammar school, a large high school, a movie, and two hotels — American Guide Series: Nevada > < one of the large machine shops … that support the town industrially — American Guide Series: Vermont > 4. a. < octagonal piers support Gothic arches along the nave — American Guide Series: Minnesota > b. < the shield of this monarch is supported on each side by an angel habited — F.J.Grant > c. d. obsolete e. < supported a general behavior in the world which could not hurt their credit or their purse — Richard Steele > f. < a wool bill supporting the domestic price for wool at 42 cents — F.A.Barrett > also < mandatory for the secretary to support six basic crops — cotton, corn, rice, peanuts, wheat and tobacco — at 90 percent of parity — Jean Begeman > 5. < beneath the sadness her indomitable pride supported her — Ellen Glasgow > 6. < the fuel had not been of that substantial sort which can support a blaze long — Thomas Hardy > < support respiration > < support the fiction that the man had left in the night — American Guide Series: Tennessee > Synonyms: < beams support the roof > < he supports the greater muscular tension involved with less evident fatigue — W.C.Brownell > < support the Constitution > sustain may center attention on the fact of constantly holding up or of maintaining undiminished < sustain the weight of office > < for nine years, Napoleon has been sustained by the people of France with a unanimity such as the United States never knew — C.B.Fairbanks > < this intellectual interest is great enough to sustain the reader through the analytical labyrinths we must search together — Hunter Mead > prop may imply a weakness, a tendency to fall, sink, or recede, a need for strengthening or reinforcing on the part of the thing being treated < propping up the table with a packing case > < trying to prop up the decaying structures of last-century imperialism — G.L.Kirk > < the plot, a slim tale of vengeance, is psychologically shallow and propped up by unpardonable coincidences — Anthony Boucher > bolster blends the suggestions of sustain and prop; it may suggest a supporting comparable to that afforded an invalid by pillows < bolster up the falling fortunes of the East India Company — V.L.Parrington > < bolster the diminishing lumber trade within the next 75 years — American Guide Series: New Jersey > < assign some extra instruments to bolster the choir's volume of sound — P.H.Lang > buttress may suggest strengthening, reinforcing, or stabilizing, sometimes massive, at a stress point, in the manner of an architectural buttress < combat business slumps and to buttress the economy so that danger of another depression will be reduced to a minimum — Newsweek > < a code of laws buttressed by divine sanctions which should be unshakable — Benjamin Farrington > < the popular success formula is buttressed by evidence from the careers of an impressive minority — R.B.Morris > brace may suggest supporting or strengthening so that the thing treated is made firm, unyielding, or rigid against pressure < brace the shelf with an angle iron > < then he braced himself against a giant oak on his front lawn and experienced a savage kind of exaltation as the elements raged around him — Bennett Cerf > < the shoring up of a tottering political system, which is precisely the problem that we face in trying to brace the western democracies — G.W.Johnson > II. 1. < the support by society of increasingly skilled specialists — Jacquetta & Christopher Hawkes > < carried a large club, partly for the support of his weak legs — Sherwood Anderson > < appeared … to testify in support of universal military training — Current Biography > as a. < methods of support by machine-gun fire — Combat Forces Journal > < the transfer of battalions between regiments … is done as seldom as possible in order to avoid complicating administrative support — M.L.Powell > — see close support b. 2. < building a steel frame as a structural support for the fabric of stone or brick — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < the first to use canvas as a support for painting in oil — C.W.H.Johnson > < one under our special supervision and the other with our cordial support — W.F.Brown b.1903 > as a. < each son was expected to contribute to his own support — Carol L. Thompson > < the only financial support which a magazine could expect was from its readers — D.M.Potter > also < he is his family's sole support > — compare price support b. (1) (2) (3) (4) c. d. e. f. (1) (2) g. h. < the suggested hypothesis led necessarily to searching for support in the psychological sciences — S.J.Beck > 3. Synonyms: see living III. < a word processor that supports a variety of printers > IV. |
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