buttresses的意思|buttresses的解释-里氏词典

n. 桥墩

A recent Des Moines Register poll buttresses Mr. Gingrich's point.
The bearing walls are supported by stone buttresses.
Richard Pipes, the Harvard Sovietologist, is a private expert who buttresses this view; he says a de facto hard-line coup is already well under way.
Oliver Cromwell's troops gutted the house during the English Civil War, and legend had it that a cavalier was bricked up alive in one of Menabilly's gray stone buttresses.
It flew down the glacier past a series of dark triangular buttresses, each about 3,000ft high.
The Utah study, which was the subject of a page-one article in The Wall Street Journal in early August, buttresses claims by some doctors that close relatives of people with colon and rectal cancers ought to be tested for appearance of polyps.
In "The Cocktail Hour," the playwright A.R. Gurney compares himself with a medieval stonecutter caught in the wrong century, chipping away at flying buttresses in an age of I-beams and curtain walls.
The road curves around the city and climbs up to this glorious building with its twin, crocketed west spires, its flying buttresses and gargoyles, one of which vulgarly vomits the rainwater.

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