| 词汇 | buttress |
| 释义 | buttress noun[ C ] uk /ˈbʌt.rəs/ us /ˈbʌt.rəs/ a structure made of stone or brick that sticks out from and supports a wall of a building撑墙，扶壁 SADLERC1/iStock / Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Physical supports and supporting abutment bearing bolster bookend buoy burden cantilever groan modillion pier pile pillar prop prop something up rafter runner scaffold sinew underpin weight-bearing buttress verb[ T ] uk /ˈbʌt.rəs/ us /ˈbʌt.rəs/ to build buttresses to support a building or structure: 建扶壁加固 It was decided to buttress the crumbling walls.人们决定建造扶壁以支撑将要倒塌的墙。 to make support for an idea or argument stronger by providing a good reason for it: 支持（想法或论点） The arguments for change are buttressed by events elsewhere.其他一些地方的事件肯定了关于变革的想法。 Physical supports and supporting abutment bearing bolster bookend buoy burden cantilever groan modillion pier pile pillar prop prop something up rafter runner scaffold sinew underpin weight-bearing You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Backing, supporting & defending buttress | American Dictionarybuttress verb[ T ] us/ˈbʌ·trəs/ art to give support to or strengthen something: He looked for things that would buttress the prosecution case and win a conviction. buttress noun[ C ] us/ˈbʌ·trəs/ a structure made of stone or brick that sticks out from and supports a wall of a building Examples of buttressbuttress The plan stipulated an ambulatory with seven chapels that were pentagonal in form, located between the buttresses. As the effort to act collectively encountered frustration, the energy tilted from idealist education and corporatist participation towards spectatorship, buttressed by inflating rhetoric. None of these claims is buttressed by an argument. Here we are in a world of names, of biographical data, buttressed by a rich iconography. The theoretical arguments in the article are buttressed with some experimental work done by the author. Nevertheless, these authors have stopped short of specifying the market argument in more detail and buttressing it with empirical work. Male superiority was axiomatic, buttressed by early modern theology, cosmography, and anthropology. Nodulation occurred on tabular buttresses in horizontal lines just above the water table level. Ideas and their political advocacy do not simply serve as constraints in the welfare restructuring process, buttressing the status quo and locking-in popular welfare institutions. Paired t-tests were used to compare the bark thickness at 30 cm and 130 cm on buttressed and unbuttressed trees. Reproductively mature trees developed buttresses and were rarely decumbent. Mounting scientific (or pseudo-scientific) evidence reframed each habit as medically harmful and buttressed the opposition. I regard this as the crucial conceptual turn in current immunology, a turn buttressed by the cognitive paradigm. The theological argument is - buttressed by a distinction between "resemblance" (shibh) and "imitation" (tashabuh). They underpinned devotion to relics and images, fostered the widespread use (and misuse) of sacramentals, and buttressed the thriving tradition of pilgrimage to prominent shrines. See all examples of buttress These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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