Advocate
['ædvəkeɪt] or ['ædvəket]
解释:
(noun.) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea.
(noun.) a lawyer who pleads cases in court.
手打:内蒂--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.
(n.) One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.
(n.) Christ, considered as an intercessor.
(n.) To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
(v. i.) To act as advocate.
艾比校对
同义词及近义词：
v. a. Defend, support, vindicate, justify, countenance, uphold, favor, plead in favor of, stand up for.
n. [1]. Counsellor, counsel, barrister, lawyer, attorney, solicitor, attorney-at-law, limb of the law.[2]. Defender, vindicator, supporter, favorer, apologist, friend, patron.[3]. Intercessor, comforter, paraclete, Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth.[4]. [With The prefixed.] Christ.
康拉德编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Pleader, counsellor, upholder, propagator, promoter, supporter, countenancer,defender, maintainer
ANT:Opponent, adversary, discountenancer, accuser, impugner, gainsayer
编辑:卡罗尔
解释:
n. an intercessor or defender: one who pleads the cause of another esp. in a court of law in Scotland and France.—v.t. to plead in favour of: to recommend.—ns. Advocā′tion; Ad′vocator.—Lord Advocate the first law-officer of the crown and public prosecutor of crimes for Scotland.
格温录入
娱乐性解释：
To dream that you advocate any cause, denotes that you will be faithful to your interests, and endeavor to deal honestly with the public, as your interests affect it, and be loyal to your promises to friends.
埃维塔校对
例句:
- I have not the inclination to parley,' said Mr. Brownlow, 'and, as I advocate the dearest interests of others, I have not the right. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Consistency, my dear Mr. Brocklehurst; I advocate consistency in all things. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- You are becoming her advocate, said he. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here who may be more successful. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Adams is going to be called to the bar almost directly, and is to be an advocate, and to wear a wig. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- He was wet through with sweat and he knew the bomb advocate was perfectly capable of tossing a grenade at any moment. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- She will but the more zealously advocate my cause because she has left me in anger. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- It is no part of my purpose to make any judgment as to the value of particular policies they have advocated. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Bacon believed in honoring the great discoverers and inventors, and advocated maintaining a calendar of inventions. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- I remember the time, Countess, when you advocated the Rights of Women, and freedom of female opinion was one of them. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- And he advocated a national army only because he saw the Italian method of carrying on war by hiring bands of foreign mercenaries was a hopeless one. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Both of these philosophers illustrated by their own investigations the efficiency of the methods which they advocated. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Beyond any whose cause you have advocated. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- She advocated a high tone of sentiment; but she did not know the sensations of sympathy and pity; tenderness and truth were not in her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The Penns found here some strenuous advocates; nor were there wanting some who warmly espoused the side of the people. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive? 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Preece, who, having been seriously sceptical as to Mr. Edison's results, became one of his most ardent advocates, and did much to facilitate the introduction of the light. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The proctors employ the advocates. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- What the Commission advocates is the constant repression and the ultimate annihilation of a mode of life which refuses discovery and measurement. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- But for the affairs of statecraft, for the very policies that a Roosevelt advocates, the interest is largely perfunctory, maintained out of a sense of duty and dropped with a sigh of relief. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
校对:琳达