buttress

[US]/ˈbʌtrəs/
[UK]/ˈbʌtrəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. 扶壁;拱壁;支撑物
vt. 以扶壁支撑;支持
Word Forms
复数buttresses
过去式buttressed
过去分词buttressed
第三人称单数buttresses
现在分词buttressing

Example Sentences

buttress up an argument

支持一个论点

authority was buttressed by religious belief.

权威得到宗教信仰的支持。

She buttressed her argument with solid facts.

她用具体事实来加强她的论点。

a buttress supporting the church wall

支垅教堂墙壁的垅墙

there was a demand for a new stable order as a buttress against social collapse.

需要一种稳定的新秩序来防止社会崩溃。

The book is packed with anecdotes to buttress their view that she is a likeable Everywoman.

这本书充斥着各种轶事,使得他们更加坚信她不过是个普通女人。

Leaf buttress A leaf primordium, appearing as a protuberance on the side of the stem apex, produced by periclinal division of the tunica and corpus, and associated with a procambium.

叶原座:顶端分生组织上的侧生突起发育成叶的原基,与原形成层有关。

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