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advocate

英 ['ædvəkeɪt] 美['ædvəket]

英英释义同义词辨析考试真题实用场景例句

vt. 提倡，主张，拥护
n. 提倡者；支持者；律师

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Advocates of selfdriving cars argue they will be safer than in cars driven by humans because they wouldn’t get distracted or drive when tired.

Pre-K advocates insist it is proven and will succeed if integrated with the rest of the child's schooling.

No one advocates letting someone convicted of pedophilia ( ' , 恋童癖 ) work in a school.

As advocates of the sharing economy like to put it, access trumps ( 胜过) ownership.

Why does Senator Charles Schumer advocate?

But was positive thinking advocate Norman Vincent Peale right?

What does the speaker seem to advocate?

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.

Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert’s appointment in the Times, calls him “an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him”.

Rosenberg argues convincingly that public-health advocates ought to take a page from advertisers, so skilled at applying peer pressure.

She exhibits the idealism common to many advocates of sustainability, be it in food or in energy.

Especially significant was his view of freedom, which, for him, was associated with the rights and responsibilities of the individual: he advocated freedom of thought and of personal expression.

The report also advocates greater study of foreign languages, international affairs and the expansion of study abroad programs.