新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

supportIELTS重点词汇

英 [səˈpɔːt]

[NOUN, VERB]

词汇频率：

NOUN. 名词

supports
1. [U 不可数名词] 支持
If you give your support to someone or their ideas or aims, you agree with them, and perhaps help them because you want them to succeed.
近义词
backing , endorsement
反义词
opposition
双语例句
例：
The president gave his full support to the reforms.
总统全力支持改革。
2. [U 不可数名词] （给处境困难或不幸者的）帮助
If you give support to someone during a difficult or unhappy time, you are kind to them and help them.
双语例句
例：
It was hard to come to terms with her death after all the support she gave to me and the family.
她曾给我和家人很大的帮助，她的去世让人难以接受。
3. [U 不可数名词] （给组织的）资助
Financial support is money provided to enable an organization to continue.
近义词
funding
双语例句
例：
State agencies continue to cut budgets and support to a number of organizations.
国家机关继续削减对一些组织的预算和资助。
例：
the government's proposal to cut agricultural support by only about 15.
仅削减约15农业补贴的政府提案。
4. [U 不可数名词] 证明
Support is evidence that helps to show that a statement or theory is true or correct.
近义词
evidence
双语例句
例：
The two largest powers in any system must always be major rivals. History offers some support for this view.
任何体制下的两个最高权力者必定总是主要竞争对手。历史可以为这一点提供佐证。
例：
The study did not lend support to the hypothesis.
该研究并不支持这种假设。
5. [C 可数名词] 支撑物
A support is a bar or other object that supports something.
双语例句
例：
Each slab was nailed to two straight wooden supports.
每块板都被钉在两根垂直的木制支撑物上。
6. [U 不可数名词] 倚靠
If you hold onto or lean on someone or something for support, you hold onto or lean on them in order to prevent yourself from falling.
双语例句
例：
Alice, very pale, was leaning against him as if for support.
爱丽丝脸色非常苍白，靠在他身上，像是在寻求依靠。

VERB. 动词

supports , supporting , supported
1. [T 及物动词] 支持
If you support someone or their ideas or aims, you agree with them, and perhaps help them because you want them to succeed.
近义词
back , endorse
反义词
oppose
双语例句
例：
The vice president insisted that he supported the hard-working people of New York.
副总统坚称自己支持勤劳工作的纽约人民。
例：
The National Union of Mineworkers pressed the party to support a total ban on imported coal.
全国矿业工会敦促政党支持完全禁止煤炭进口。
2. [T 及物动词] 资助 , 供养
If you support someone, you provide them with money or the things that they need.
近义词
finance , fund
双语例句
例：
I have children to support, money to be earned, and a home to be maintained.
我要养孩子，要赚钱，还要供房子。
例：
She sold everything she'd ever bought in order to support herself through art school.
为了供自己读完艺术学院，她把以前买的东西都卖掉了。
3. [T 及物动词] 证实
If a fact supports a statement or a theory, it helps to show that it is true or correct.
近义词
substantiate , back up
双语例句
例：
The Freudian theory about daughters falling in love with their father has little evidence to support it.
弗洛伊德关于女儿恋父的理论没有什么证据来证实。
例：
This observation is supported by the archaeological evidence.
这个观点得到了考古证据的证实。
4. [T 及物动词] 支撑
If something supports an object, it is underneath the object and holding it up.
近义词
hold up
双语例句
例：
the thick wooden posts that supported the ceiling.
支撑天花板的粗木柱子。
5. [T 及物动词] 倚着
If you support yourself, you prevent yourself from falling by holding onto something or by leaning on something.
双语例句
例：
He supported himself by means of a nearby post.
他倚在旁边的一根柱子上。
6. [T 及物动词] 支持（运动队等）
If you support a sports team, you always want them to win and perhaps go regularly to their games.
双语例句
例：
Tim, 17, supports Manchester United.
17岁的蒂姆支持曼彻斯特联队。