buttress
buttress 英 [ˈbʌtrəs] 美 [ˈbʌtrɪs]
n. 扶壁；拱壁；支撑物 vt. 支持；以扶壁支撑
进行时:buttressing 过去式:buttressed 过去分词:buttressed 第三人称单数:buttresses 名词复数:buttresses
- You can buttress an argument with solid facts or your financial portfolio with safe investments. You may find that giving compliments to everyone you meet buttresses your popularity. To buttress is to sustain or reinforce.
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- n. 扶壁；拱壁；支撑物
- vt. 支持；以扶壁支撑
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1. Try to buttress the points you make in these chapters with some details.
竭力支持在这些带有某些详细叙述的篇章中你所阐明的论点。
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2. Have some background information available to buttress your case, including links and citations.
有一些可用的背景信息支持你的案例，包括链接和引用。
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3. Concrete buttress dams when subjected to severe shaking have developed horizontal cracks at the elevation high in the dams where the downstream buttresses intersect the vertical “chimney” section.
混凝土伏扶壁大坝受到强震时，容易在大坝高处形成裂缝，在那里下游坝面扶壁横贯垂直的“烟筒”部分。
- buttress (n.) early 14c., "structure built against a wall to give it stability," from Old French (arc) botrez "flying buttress," apparently from bouter, boter "to thrust against," a word of Frankish origin (compare Old Norse bauta "to strike, beat"), from Proto-Germanic *butan, from PIE root *bhau- "to strike." Figurative sense "any source of support" is from mid-15c.
- buttress (v.) late 14c., literal and figurative, from buttress (n.). Related: Buttressed; buttressing.
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