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单词 undergird
释义
undergird
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ˌʌn.dəˈɡɜːd/us
/ˌʌn.dɚˈɡɜ˞ːd/
tosupportsomething byformingastrongbasefor it:
在底部加固；形成…的基础；加强，支撑
These are the fourmajortheoriesthat undergirdcriminallaw.这是构成刑法基础的四大理论。
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  • Congressisunlikelyto give him the secondhalfof a $700billionrescuefundhe isseekingto undergird theeconomy.
  • Growth has been undergirded bystrongdomesticdemand,lowinflation, andsolidconsumerandinvestorconfidence.
  • Theinstitutespecializesinprofessionaltrainingin anumberoffields, undergirded bylanguageand cross-culturalcommunicationtraining.
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Becoming and making stronger
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  • fortify
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  • invigoration
  • jell
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  • restoke
  • restrengthen
  • sharpen
  • solidification
  • solidify
  • soup
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(Definition ofundergirdfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofundergird

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The variable lengths come about by the interpolation, in every other bar, of an ' ' added value' ' that arbitrarily lengthens one of the musical pulses that undergirds the rhythmic surface.
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Local government is complementary to and undergirds national government.
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Nevertheless, in our best companies there is an ethos that is undergirded by, and suffused with, a definite set of values.
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Several principles in socialization contributed by developmental psychologyundergirdthe proposed model.
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Although interest rate co-movements almost certainlyundergirdthe international transmission of business cycles, no clear and reasonably immediate causal path exists to measure their effect on election calling.
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We must be prepared to buttress the family, to strengthen and toundergirdmarriage, doing everything in our power to save marriages.
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A religious vision may be able toundergirdthat ethic which we seek.
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The function of doctrine is toundergirdthe practical moral life.
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Emotions provide the scaffolding for the construction of social cognition and are required for the self processes whichundergirdconsciousness.
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The ostentatious display of facts and figures dramatizes the efficiency and efficacy of the organization, and ultimately undergirds its authority.
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Shared tri-partite lineage formations undergirded political life, and were legitimated through universal ritual practices.
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Migration and adaptation was a painful experience, one undergirded by a process of class formation.
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What images of science, society, and sociological method undergirded their attempts to study scientific knowledge sociologically?
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If the covenant is not to restore old oppressions or create new ones, it must be checked and undergirded by contract.
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What should be questioned in this view, however, is the complacent sense of progress that undergirds it.
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