support /səˈpɔːt/ CET4 TEM4 ( supporting, supported, supports )

• 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

  例：

  The vice president insisted that he supported the hard-working people of New York.

  副总统坚持认为他支持勤劳的纽约人民。

• 2. 

  N-UNCOUNT Support is also a noun. 支持

  例：

  The president gave his full support to the reforms.

  该总统对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. (给处境困难或不幸者的) 帮助

  例：

  It was hard to come to terms with her death after all the support she gave to me and the family.

  她曾给我和这个家庭很大的帮助，她的去世让人难以接受。

• 4. 

  N-UNCOUNT Financial support is money provided to enable an organization to continue. (给组织的) 资助

  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。

• 5. 

  V-T If you support someone, you provide them with money or the things that they need. 资助; 供养

  例：

  I have children to support, money to be earned, and a home to be maintained.

  我有一群孩子要供，要赚钱，还要养一所房子。

• 6. 

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

  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。

• 7. 

  N-UNCOUNT Support is also a noun. 证明

  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然永远是主要竞争对手。历史提供了这种观点的一些佐证。

• 8. 

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

  例：

  ...the thick wooden posts that supported the ceiling.

  …支撑天花板的那些粗木柱子。

• 9. 

  N-COUNT A support is a bar or other object that supports something. 支撑物

  例：

  Each slab was nailed to two straight wooden supports.

  每块板都钉在两根垂直的木制支撑物上。

• 10. 

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

  例：

  He supported himself by means of a nearby post.

  他倚在旁边的一根柱子上。

• 11. 

  N-UNCOUNT Support is also a noun. 倚靠

  例：

  Alice, very pale, was leaning against him as if for support.

  爱丽丝脸色非常苍白，正靠在他身上，好像是在寻求倚靠。

• 12. 

  V-T If you support a sports team, you always want them to win and perhaps go regularly to their games. 支持 (运动队等)

  例：

  Tim, 17, supports the Knicks.

  17岁的蒂姆支持尼克斯队。