buttress

buttress

英 ['bʌtrɪs]
　　美 ['bʌtrəs]

n. 扶壁；拱壁；支撐物
　　vt. 支持；以扶壁支撐

中文詞源：

buttress 支墩

來自butt, 相撞，相接。-ess, 通常為陰性後綴，此處為名詞後綴，見largess, 慷慨。

例句：

1. He sought to buttress some of his arguments with quotations from Mein Kampf.
他引用《我的奮鬥》中的語錄來論證自己的觀點。

2. She would continue, faithful and reliable, to buttress up Miss Bulstrode's successor.
她會繼續幹下去, 忠心而可靠, 給接替佈爾斯特羅德小姐的人以支持.

3. The massive - head buttress dam has some attractive features for certain locations.
大頭支墩壩對於某些地區仍有其值得註意的特色.

4. I don't think they have any buttress behind them.
我認為他們背後沒有什麼支持力量.

5. In the 1980 s this concept was used to buttress several so - called sectoral reciprocity proposals.
80年代這一原則曾被用來支持幾個 所謂 部分互惠建議.