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单词 propound
释义
propound
verb[T]
formal
uk
/prəˈpaʊnd/us
/prəˈpaʊnd/
tosuggestatheory,belief, oropinionfor otherpeopletoconsider:
提出（理论、想法或观点）供考虑
It was Ptolemy who propounded thetheorythat theearthwas at thecentreof theuniverse.是托勒密提出了地球位于宇宙中心的理论。
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Expressing and asking opinions
(Definition ofpropoundfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpropound

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They were far from being perfect embodiments of the norms they propounded.
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He had his own philosophy of life and social order, and propounded, promoted and defended the ideology of this dispensation.
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More modern functionalist theories include those propounded by many contemporar y theorists of deliberative democracy.
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The human perceptual system has a ' natural ' propensity to dichotomize as propounded in assimilation-contrast theory and as exemplified in stereotyping.
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Not an illustration will be employed, not an argument used, not a statement made, not a doctrine propounded, that will escape their criticism.
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Although most ideas propounded about pollards are negative, some authors provide evidence of their importance for wood production.
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In conclusion, it is propounded that the concept of (intergenerational) reciprocity is inadequate to account for pension sharing or practical provision of old-age care.
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To do this sort of analysis is to give great weight to ideas and the intellectuals whopropoundthem.
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Arnold contributed to this process of re-definition through the ideas he propounded and colleagues and students whom he influenced.
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These writings embodied a genuine discourse : they were propounded in texts, historically located, and displayed a coherent system of meaning.
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They make the sociology of paradigmatic change derivative of the cognitive model of science dynamics propounded here.
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It must certainly be conceded that not all versions of the doctrine have been propounded in a coherent form.
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The local dominant opinion, by linking these breaches to the 'rise of the dalits', certainly propounds an increase.
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The ideas propounded in speeches and newspapers were discussed and debated on street-corners and in villages, and those debates were conveyed back again to the pages of the newspapers.
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The second was the apocalyptic envisaging of the rise, degeneration and fall of civilisations as propounded in the writings of both scholarly and popularising twentieth-century metahistorians.
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