buttressing的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-COUNT扶壁；撐牆；扶垛

Buttresses are supports, usually made of stone or brick, that support a wall.

VERB加強（論點或制度）；支援（某人）

To buttress an argument, system, or person means to give them support and strength.

• He sought to buttress some of his arguments with quotations from Mein Kampf...

  他引用《我的奮鬥》中的語錄來論證自己的觀點。

• The president's tough line is, however, buttressed by a democratic mandate.

  然而，總統推行的強硬路線受到了民主黨釋出的訓令的支援。