buttress

英 [ˈbʌt.rəs]      美 [ˈbʌt.rəs]
  • n. 扶壁;拱壁;支撑物
  • vt. 支持;以扶壁支撑
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将“buttress”与“butt”联想记忆,想象一个人的臀部(butt)支撑着建筑物,就像“buttress”(扶壁)支撑着建筑,起到加固的作用。这种方法通过一个简单的图像帮助记忆单词的意思。

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buttress 支墩

来自butt, 相撞,相接。-ess, 通常为阴性后缀,此处为名词后缀,见largess, 慷慨。

buttress (n.)
early 14c., from Old French (arc) botrez "flying buttress," apparently from bouter "to thrust against," of Frankish origin (compare Old Norse bauta "to strike, beat"), from Proto-Germanic *butan, from PIE root *bhau- "to strike" (see butt (v.)).
buttress (v.)
late 14c., literal and figurative, from buttress (n.). Related: Buttressed; buttressing.
1. He sought to buttress some of his arguments with quotations from Mein Kampf.
他引用《我的奋斗》中的语录来论证自己的观点。
2. She would continue, faithful and reliable, to buttress up Miss Bulstrode's successor.
她会继续干下去, 忠心而可靠, 给接替布尔斯特罗德小姐的人以支持.
3. The massive - head buttress dam has some attractive features for certain locations.
大头支墩坝对于某些地区仍有其值得注意的特色.
4. I don't think they have any buttress behind them.
我认为他们背后没有什么支持力量.
5. In the 1980 s this concept was used to buttress several so - called sectoral reciprocity proposals.
80年代这一原则曾被用来支持几个 所谓 部分互惠建议.