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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [səˈpɔːt]
  • 美式音标 [səˈpɔːrt]
  • 国际音标 [sə'pɔ:t]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • v. 支持；帮助；支撑；维持；证实；胜任；忍受；（尤指在财政方面）资助；（在流行音乐会上）当助演；安慰；（计算机）支持……的运行
  • n. 支持；帮助；支撑物；支撑；扶持；物质援助；安慰；（流行乐或摇滚音乐会的）伴奏；技术支持；证据；（战争中的）支援

词源解说

  • 15世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的supporter；最初源自古典拉丁语的supportare：sup (从上而下） + portare (提，拿），意为传达，运送，养育。

词根记忆

  • sup + port(运送)→运送衣食以支持→支持

同根派生

  • adj性质的同根词
    supportive：支持的；支援的；赞助的。
    supporting：支持的；辅助性的；次要的。
    supportable：可支持的；可援助的；可忍耐的。
  • n性质的同根词
    supporting：支持；支承面。
    supporter：支持者；拥护者。
  • v性质的同根词
    supporting：支持；供养（support的ing形式）。

用法辨析

    v. (动词)

  • support的基本意思是“支撑; 负担(重量); 搀扶”,指凭借支撑(物)维持某特定的位置或状态,有时含有不屈服或不过分痛苦地忍受艰难困苦的意味。引申还可表示“维持”“养(家)”“赞成”“证实”“激励”“经常光顾,为…捧场”等。
  • support是及物动词,接名词或代词作宾语,也可接以动词不定式充当补足语的复合宾语。
  • support作“忍受”解时,常用于否定句中,往往与can〔could〕或can't〔couldn't〕连用。
  • support后接介词against表示“支持…反对…”; 后接介词in表示“在…方面给予支持”; 后接介词on表示“靠…支持〔撑〕”。

    • n. (名词)

  • support用作名词的基本意思是“支撑,承受,支持,赞助”,是不可数名词,表示抽象的支持、支援、赞助等行为。
  • support也可表示“支撑物,支柱,支座,支架”等,是可数名词。
  • support还可表示“给予帮助〔同情〕的人”,是可数名词。
  • support还可作“支持者,拥护者”,是不可数名词。

英汉例句

    用作动词 (v.)

    用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.

  • Walls support the roof.
    墙支撑着屋顶。

    • S+～+ n./pron. +to- v

  • I hope you will support me in my efforts to discover the truth.
    在我努力寻求揭发真相时,希望你能帮助我。

    • 用作名词 (n.)

  • Your support has meant a lot to me during this difficult time.
    在这困难时期,你的支持给了我很大的帮助。

词组短语

    用作动词 (v.)

    ～+名词

  • support a candidate 支持某个候选人
  • support a cause 支持某项事业
  • support a family 养活一家人
  • support a leader 支持某个领导人
  • support a motion 赞成某项动议

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • (ENCOURAGE) to agree with and give encouragement to someone or something because you want him, her, or it to succeed
  • (HELP) to help someone emotionally or in a practical way
  • (PROVIDE) to give a person the money they need in order to buy food and clothes and pay for somewhere to live
  • (STOP FROM FALLING) to hold something firmly or carry its weight, especially from below to stop it from falling
  • (PROVE) to help to show something to be true
  • (ACCEPT) to accept something and allow it to happen
  • (ENCOURAGEMENT) agreement with and encouragement for an idea, group, or person
  • (HELP) emotional or practical help
  • (MONEY) the money someone needs in order to buy food and clothes and pay for somewhere to live
  • (HOLDING) something that holds something firmly or carries its weight, especially from below to stop it from falling
  • (PROOF) something that shows that a fact is true

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you support someone or their ideas or aims, you agree with them, and perhaps help them because you want them to succeed.
  • Support is also a noun.
  • If you give support to someone during a difficult or unhappy time, you are kind to them and help them.
  • Financial support is money provided to enable an organization to continue.
  • If you support someone, you provide them with money or the things that they need.
  • If a fact supports a statement or a theory, it helps to show that it is true or correct.
  • Support is also a noun.
  • If something supports an object, it is underneath the object and holding it up.
  • A support is a bar or other object that supports something.
  • If you support yourself, you prevent yourself from falling by holding onto something or by leaning on something.
  • Support is also a noun.
  • If you support a sports team, you always want them to win and perhaps go regularly to their games.