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单词 buttress
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buttress
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbʌt.rəs/us
/ˈbʌt.rəs/
astructuremade ofstoneorbrickthatsticksout from andsupportsawallof abuilding
撑墙，扶壁
picture of buttress
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Physical supports and supporting
  • abutment
  • bearing
  • bolster
  • bookend
  • bracket
  • buoy
  • burden
  • cantilever
  • groan
  • load-bearing
  • pier
  • pile
  • pillar
  • prop
  • propsomethingup
  • rafter
  • scaffold
  • sinew
  • underpin
  • weight-bearing
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buttress
verb[T]
uk
/ˈbʌt.rəs/us
/ˈbʌt.rəs/
tobuildbuttresses tosupportabuildingorstructure:
建扶壁加固
It wasdecidedto buttress thecrumblingwalls.人们决定建造扶壁以支撑将要倒塌的墙。
to makesupportfor anideaorargumentstrongerbyprovidinga goodreasonfor it:
支持（想法或论点）
Theargumentsforchangeare buttressed byeventselsewhere.其他一些地方的事件肯定了关于变革的想法。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Physical supports and supporting
  • abutment
  • bearing
  • bolster
  • bookend
  • bracket
  • buoy
  • burden
  • cantilever
  • groan
  • load-bearing
  • pier
  • pile
  • pillar
  • prop
  • propsomethingup
  • rafter
  • scaffold
  • sinew
  • underpin
  • weight-bearing
See more results »

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Backing, supporting & defending
(Definition ofbuttressfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

buttress| American Dictionary

buttress
verb[T]
us
/ˈbʌ·trəs/
art
to givesupportto orstrengthensomething:
Helookedfor things that would buttress theprosecutioncaseandwinaconviction.
buttress
noun[C]
us
/ˈbʌ·trəs/
astructuremade ofstoneorbrickthatsticksout from andsupportsawallof abuilding
(Definition ofbuttressfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbuttress

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The plan stipulated an ambulatory with seven chapels that were pentagonal in form, located between the buttresses.
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As the effort to act collectively encountered frustration, the energy tilted from idealist education and corporatist participation towards spectatorship, buttressed by inflating rhetoric.
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None of these claims is buttressed by an argument.
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Here we are in a world of names, of biographical data, buttressed by a rich iconography.
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The theoretical arguments in the article are buttressed with some experimental work done by the author.
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Nevertheless, these authors have stopped short of specifying the market argument in more detail and buttressing it with empirical work.
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Male superiority was axiomatic, buttressed by early modern theology, cosmography, and anthropology.
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Nodulation occurred on tabular buttresses in horizontal lines just above the water table level.
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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.
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Paired t-tests were used to compare the bark thickness at 30 cm and 130 cm on buttressed and unbuttressed trees.
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Reproductively mature trees developed buttresses and were rarely decumbent.
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Mounting scientific (or pseudo-scientific) evidence reframed each habit as medically harmful and buttressed the opposition.
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I regard this as the crucial conceptual turn in current immunology, a turn buttressed by the cognitive paradigm.
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The theological argument is - buttressed by a distinction between "resemblance" (shibh) and "imitation" (tashabuh).
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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.
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