support

1. V-T If you support someone or their ideas or aims, you agree with them, and perhaps help them because you want them to succeed. 支持

The vice president insisted that he supported the hard-working people of New York. 副總統(tǒng)堅持認(rèn)為他支持勤勞的紐約人民。

2. N-UNCOUNT Support is also a noun. 支持

The president gave his full support to the reforms. 該總統(tǒng)對改革予以了全力的支持。

3. N-UNCOUNT If you give support to someone during a difficult or unhappy time, you are kind to them and help them. (給處境困難或不幸者的) 幫助

It was hard to come to terms with her death after all the support she gave to me and the family. 她曾給我和這個家庭很大的幫助，她的去世讓人難以接受。

4. N-UNCOUNT Financial support is money provided to enable an organization to continue. (給組織的) 資助

State agencies continue to cut budgets and support to a number of organizations. 國家機(jī)關(guān)繼續(xù)削減對一些組織的預(yù)算和資助。

5. V-T If you support someone, you provide them with money or the things that they need. 資助; 供養(yǎng)

I have children to support, money to be earned, and a home to be maintained. 我有一群孩子要供，要賺錢，還要養(yǎng)一所房子。

6. V-T If a fact supports a statement or a theory, it helps to show that it is true or correct. 證實

The Freudian theory about daughters falling in love with their father has little evidence to support it. 弗洛伊德關(guān)于女兒戀父的理論沒有什么證據(jù)來證實。

7. N-UNCOUNT Support is also a noun. 證明

The two largest powers in any system must always be major rivals. History offers some support for this view. 任何體制下的兩個最高權(quán)力者必然永遠(yuǎn)是主要競爭對手。歷史提供了這種觀點(diǎn)的一些佐證。

8. V-T If something supports an object, it is underneath the object and holding it up. 支撐

...the thick wooden posts that supported the ceiling. …支撐天花板的那些粗木柱子。

9. N-COUNT A support is a bar or other object that supports something. 支撐物

Each slab was nailed to two straight wooden supports. 每塊板都釘在兩根垂直的木制支撐物上。

10. V-T If you support yourself, you prevent yourself from falling by holding onto something or by leaning on something. 倚著

He supported himself by means of a nearby post. 他倚在旁邊的一根柱子上。

11. N-UNCOUNT Support is also a noun. 倚靠

Alice, very pale, was leaning against him as if for support. 愛麗絲臉色非常蒼白，正靠在他身上，好像是在尋求倚靠。

12. V-T If you support a sports team, you always want them to win and perhaps go regularly to their games. 支持 (運(yùn)動隊等)

Tim, 17, supports the Knicks. 17歲的蒂姆支持尼克斯隊。