advocate

英[ ˈadvəkeɪt]美[ ˈædvəkeɪt]

vt.拥护，主张，鼓吹；

复数：advocates;

第三人称单数：advocates;

过去式：advocated;

过去分词：advocated;

现在分词：advocating;

例句

She’s a staunch advocate of free trade.她是自由贸易的忠实拥护者。

We advocate temperance.我们主张禁酒。

The strength of altruism lies in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.毫无疑问,利他主义存在于任何社会,而且道德准也普遍提倡利他主义或善良行为,而谴责自私自利。这也正是利他主义具有强大生命力的原因。

He got the best advocate in town to defend him.他请城里*好的律师为他辩护。

He is an advocate of more airplanes and fewer warships.他是一个提倡多造飞机、少造*舰的人。

I don't advocate doing such things.我不主张干这样的事情。

We advocate famous person may not review , against Piantingpianxin, parroting.我们提倡闻人言而不可不察, 反对偏听偏信, 人云亦云.

Harcourt and Parks advocate modifying he Red List criteria to include local human population density.哈考特和帕克思主张修改红名单的评测标准,应该将本地人口密度列为其中一项.

They advocate the retention of our nuclear power plants.他们主张保留我们的核电厂.

The vocation advocate found the word "vocal" and "reciprocal" not in the vocabulary.职业倡导者发现“嗓音的”和“交互的”两词不在词汇表中。

英语六级真题

Workers' advocates have criticized Haslam's plan, saying it would mean some campus workers would lose their jobs or benefits.

They advocated equity between men and women.

Consider the incandescent ( ' , 白炽灯 ) bulb, an object currently hated by many environmentalists and energy-efficiency advocates.

Advocates of the practice have taken issue with his team's use of such evidence as news accounts to support his conclusion that goal-setting is widely over-prescribed.

What do advocates of goal-setting think of Schweitzer's research

In contrast to each of these ideas, Covey advocates that leaders need to understand universal principles of effectiveness, and he highlights how vital it is for leaders to first personally manage themselves if they are to enjoy any hope of outstanding success in their work environments.

While advocating freedom for animals, they kept their pet mouse in a cage.

Hale wasn't just a writer, she was also a fierce social advocate, and she was particularly obsessed with an ideal New England, which she associated with abundant Thanksgiving meals that she claimed had a deep moral influence.

Last summer, Massachusetts grass-fed beef advocate John Smith launched Big Picture Beef, a network of small grass-fed beef farms in New England and New York that is projected to bring to market 2,500 head of cattle from 125 producers this year.

One advocate believes that many other benefits should be taken into consideration when we assess the cost-effectiveness of grass-fed farming.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

拥护；提倡；主张

If you advocate a particular action or plan, you recommend it publicly.

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N-COUNT

拥护者；提倡者

An advocate of a particular action or plan is someone who recommends it publicly.

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N-COUNT

辩护律师

An advocate is a lawyer who speaks in favour of someone or defends them in a court of law.

N-COUNT

（为某一类人）谋利益者

An advocate for a particular group is a person who works for the interests of that group.

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英汉词典释义

vt.

提倡, 主张

拥护；鼓吹；为…辩护

n.

提倡者, 拥护者

辩护律师, 辩护人

(辩护)律师，专门律师，出庭律师(作为头衔用于保留古罗马法律实质的国家和地区，如苏格兰；亦用于英国海事法庭等)

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英英词典释义

Noun

1. a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea

2. a lawyer who pleads cases in court

Verb

1. push for something;

2. speak, plead, or argue in favour of;

行业词典

法律： 辩护律师；辩护人；