| 词汇 | buttressing |
| 释义 | buttressing present participle ofbuttress 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 bracket burden buttress groan load-bearing modillion pier pile pillar prop prop something up rafter sinew underpin unsupported weight-bearing You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Backing, supporting & defending Examples of buttressingbuttressing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Nevertheless, these authors have stopped short of specifying the market argument in more detail and buttressing it with empirical work. 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. When stem diameter could not be obtained in the field due to irregular trunks or buttressing, diameters from the 1995 census were used. Figure 19 shows, greatly exaggerated, the way a dome might crack if its supporting structure (buttressing half-domes or arches, for example) gave way slightly. Patterns of buttressing in tropical trees vary greatly within and among species. If there was a trunk anomaly at 1.3 m, such as buttressing, the stem diameter measurement was taken directly above the anomaly. We still know little about the life histories of most rainforest tree species, and life history crises may not be the only determinant of buttressing behaviour. I propose a reworked evolutionary genetic model of schizophrenia, drawing on insights from commentators, buttressing my claim that psychosis is a costly consequence of sophisticated social cognition in humans. Home industry promoters hoped that in rekindling them they could promote a parallel revival of the rural family, buttressing rural home life, and upholding the home as women's space. I think it even more important to give statutory buttressing to the inclusion of education. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To the extent that they are acting at all, they are buttressing extremist attitudes and upholding practices that long since should have been discarded. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I fear that any future contract will need some kind of buttressing with some form of statutory sanctions if it is to work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I repeat: such legislation is intended to reafirm the law, to consolidate it in the dictionary sense of buttressing and cementing it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This list of methods of buttressing the existing system was not taken by me at random but found a proper documentary origin. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that to be a classic example of aid buttressing peace. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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