Definition of buttress in English:

buttress

nounˈbʌtrɪsˈbətrəs

1A structure of stone or brick built against a wall to strengthen or support it.
扶壁，撑墙，拱壁
the cathedral's massive buttresses
Example sentencesExamples
- The path goes up by the left side of the main buttress in front of you.
- Kain thanked the man and followed the directions, coming to a thickly built stone building with buttresses and smaller towers extending several stories above where the main building ended.
- The tower was built of massive columns, great white pillars, supported by beams and buttresses.
- They saw huge caverns, their roofs supported by great natural buttresses and pillars of rock.
- Up here, suspended dizzyingly more than 100 feet above the ground, it is easy to see how the great stone buttresses that support the magnificent cathedral have been eroded by time.
- The frame acquired the architectural elements of its churchlike structure: columns, cornices, arches and traceries, buttresses, ornate roundels like rose windows.
- You will notice the buttresses, the porch, the crenellations on the walls, and the four light mullioned windows.
- The handsome and much-photographed chimneys doubled as buttresses for added roof support.
- I leaned against the damp stone of the buttress, tilting my head to follow the line of the sheer wall up to where the ghosts of clouds raced before the moon.
- This is no ordinary brick arch and buttress structure.
- There are vertical walls with jagged buttresses, sweeping canyons, arches, narrow gullies and fissures in the rock that develop into caves at the waterline.
- The contrast is jaw-dropping; architectural values have been binned, and walls, windows and buttresses bunged in anywhere simply to prop up the facade at the front.
- This emphasised that the structure is not in fact circular, but built in straight segments that may indicate radial walls or buttresses.
- Around the perimeter, massive brick buttresses provide lateral restraint.
- The trunks of some of the trees were three times the girth of anything in Europe, and many had enormous walls of wood sprouting from their bases like the buttresses of gothic cathedrals.
- Great stone buttresses stood on either side of the wall, giving support to the monumental structure and framing the temple grounds themselves.
- The remnant of a long-disused church building, it was built out of solid stone with massive buttresses supporting long, high walls.
- Very slender and elegant precast concrete arches span the space to bear on buttresses so massive that they provide alcoves off the big central space, the social heart of the academic community.
- The pub itself has been strengthened by buttresses to stop the subsidence worsening, and survived the tremor unscathed.
- Typical of its period is the way the upper parts of the walls step back above the buttresses before reaching a straight parapet.
Synonyms
prop, support, abutment, shore, pier, reinforcement, stanchion, stay, strut
1. 1.1 A projecting portion of a hill or mountain.
  山边扶壁状凸出部分
  Example sentencesExamples
  The beauty of the southeast buttress of Cathedral Peak is that it's all on, and it's all beautiful, classic, and fun.
  A grassy bay separates this buttress from the fine slabs on Cir Mhor's SW face.
  A big drop followed, down over rough rock and scree to the Bealach an Fhuarian from where a great greyish-white buttress reared alarmingly.
  The high cliffs are riven and seared by gullies, prominent ridges, towers and buttresses.
  Return to the cairn and carry on up to the North Peak, where you can look down over the buttresses.
  Soon the views of the great buttresses and ridges and gullies of the north-east face begin to open up.
  I know there are innumerably more adventurous routes that trace their way by gully and buttress, ridge and groove up the massive north-east face of the Ben.
  Pass above the steep buttresses to the summit then descend the Sron a’ Gharbh Choire Bhig back to your starting point.
  We ate dried peaches, swigged iodized alpine water, and stared up at the pyramid-shaped northwest buttress of Cloud Peak.
  Hiking out, we talked about our ascent of the northwest buttress of Cloud Peak, trying to sound congratulatory.
  I suggested we descend an intermediate ridge, cut across the western cirque, climb the northwest buttress of Cloud Peak, circle around, and complete the entire enchainment in the reverse direction.
  In spring, peregrines often nest near The Main Area or Red Slab and these buttresses should be avoided at this time.
  Then I look back at the mountain, but the clouds have descended and the buttresses have disappeared.
  About five metres beyond the second, you'll see a shelf about head height on a buttress formed where a thin inlet enters.
  Lion's Head stands to the north of Table Mountain, and the Apostles are the rocky buttresses behind it.
  Just south lies the brooding notched ridge of Chlas Glas and Bla Bheinn, a great wall of spires, gullies and buttresses.
  After scaling a relatively easy 3,000-foot buttress and traversing a huge glacial plateau below the main face, the climbers will stash most of their gear.
  Its position below the buttresses and ridges of Ben Nevis' convoluted north-east face really is outstanding.
  Across the valley the mute, cloud-shrouded buttresses of Johannesburg Mountain wait like ghosts.
  Near the head of the loch I pitched my tent in splendid, silent solitude on a grassy terrace beneath rocky buttresses and towering ridges.
2A source of defence or support.
〈喻〉保卫力量；支持力量
the political police were the main buttress of the regime
政治警察是该政权的主要支柱。
Example sentencesExamples
- As a buttress of the ugly martial law regime, it wrecked many more lives than those of these two kidnappers.
- Even ‘reverence for the emperor, the most important ideological buttress of the old order, was evidently giving way’.
- The clergy did not do so because English kings were the protectors of the faith against heretics and a buttress against anticlerical attack.
- They were a more effective buttress of the Crown than its own bureaucracy or civil service.
- Property and financial prosperity were powerful testimonies to the strength of each of these categories and a buttress to weak claims to either.
- The Church is called a pillar and buttress because there are many local churches throughout the world performing this function.
- It means he can defend his own defence, with Nerlinger providing the buttress to protect the centre-backs.
- Chad was seen as a buttress against Libya.
- For the first time in human history the inferior man has no ready buttress for his self-regard.
- At every stage in a fairytale life, the stoic sensible lovely Lancashire lass has been Tom's buttress, giving unstinting support and keeping his feet firmly on the ground.
- In these short few weeks the coach must re-shape - he vehemently contests the description ‘rebuild’ - Rangers, with a new midfield, attack, and a defensive buttress or two.
- These statements only underscore the extent to which the unions and NDP are buttresses of the existing social order.
- Male conservatives can then quote female operatives, using the sex of the original messenger as a buttress against similar complaints.
- Stallman thus launched his movement to build a buttress against this trend, by developing a free operating system within which the freedoms he had known could continue.
- You'll simmer them quickly in their own juices with onion, garlic, and fresh basil, gentle buttresses for their full, robust flavor.
- The main buttress of state security is the national defense capability and only after it comes the economic might.
- The ‘truth’ becomes another buttress in the society's ideological infrastructure.

verbˈbʌtrɪsˈbətrəs

[with object]

1Provide (a building or structure) with buttresses.
用扶壁支撑（建筑物等）
we buttressed the wall as it was showing signs of cracking and collapse
Example sentencesExamples
- Preparing for all these people, and buttressing runways for a plane that can weigh 544 tonnes on takeoff, is not cheap.
- It is more economical to buttress it at certain intervals than to make the entire wall thicker.
- For example, huge ‘flying shores’ had to be fitted to buttress the structure against movement.
- All the televisions were tuned to the Weather Channel and workers buttressed the hotel's smoked-glass windows with sheets of plywood.
- The outer walls were buttressed with typical large blocks while within, they were fashioned from small unfinished stones mortared into place, reminding one of a traditional castle or keep in Avalon or Torrencia.
- A protective structure adapted to buttress opposed upright walls of an excavation.
- High, spidery scaffolding buttressed its walls on both sides, and though there was no one working now, Pres could see pails and rags scattered along the planking.
- But he saw too that these same houses were surrounded by high walls, all heavily buttressed against the regular earthquakes.
- Rafters were cut into mortised joints at the ridge, and braces buttress the walls in every direction.
- Although these thrusts can be resolved by tensile reinforcing in the perimeter beams it is simplest, and most natural, and stable to use the building itself to buttress the horizontal thrusts.
2Increase the strength of or justification for; reinforce.
〈喻〉加强；支持；加固
authority was buttressed by religious belief
权威得到宗教信仰的支撑。
Example sentencesExamples
- The evidence about human genetic differences in cognition found in psychometric research increasingly is getting buttressed by results from biological research.
- Transmitted to Washington by the British, the Zimmermann telegram helped buttress President Woodrow Wilson's decision to call for a declaration of war against Germany.
- The move buttresses Hormel's long-standing strategy to form joint ventures with Mexican, Asian, Indian and Mediterranean brands to cater to the growing ethnic population.
- Wenger noted that sustained workplace relationships and interaction buttress communities of practice.
- In other words, participant observers frequently buttress their observations with methods of data collection that allow them access to important areas that are not amenable to observation.
- It is as if their role in life is to appease, and even buttress, the white liberal conscience while naturally continuing to do all the dirty work.
- He had read a great deal of history, but he does not buttress his position by quoting from historical sources, as he was later to do.
- Nevertheless, many private landowners maintain feeders and dole out mineral supplements to retain the deer and buttress antler growth.
- Ultimately, though, this fear of sexuality buttresses Bulosan's inability to perceive the material realities of prostitution and sexual abuse.
- Whether in business or politics, partnerships are supposed to buttress the strengths of those involved.
- The Athenian polis, buttressed by the strength of its Council of Five Hundred and Assembly of citizens, managed to gain control of a confederation of city-states which gradually became the Athenian Empire.
- When analysts can cite other experts, whether private sector or foreign liaison, they add to their own credibility - experts talk to other experts - as well as buttress their argument.
- I was expecting at least a stout defence, and probably new evidence that would help buttress his case, but he barely rated a mention in Trevor Mallard's speech, and I will tell the members why.
- Remember, these thinly capitalized companies' insurance buttress truly enormous quantities of securities.
- Cable and satellite operators seldom disclose subscription numbers, but what numbers are available buttress Peck's point.
- The southern Cape's political strength is very much buttressed because the party's Provincial Leader is the mayor of George.
- By this reckoning, buoyant growth will boost wages and salaries, giving home buyers the extra money they need to cover their increased borrowing costs and so buttress housing.
- By waging geopolitical wars, clamping down on immigration and regulating the mobility of capital, it buttresses its own authority, and maintains the false boundaries of nation-states.
- We regard Article 10 as reinforcing and buttressing the conclusions we have reached and set out above.
- And small-world experiences that we encounter naturally buttress people's religious faith as evidence of ‘design.’
Synonyms
strengthen, reinforce, fortify, support, prop up, bolster up, shore up, underpin, cement, brace, uphold, confirm, defend, maintain, back up, buoy up

Origin

Middle English: from Old French (ars) bouterez 'thrusting (arch)', from boter 'to strike or thrust' (see butt¹).

Definition of buttress in US English:

buttress

nounˈbətrəsˈbətrəs

1A projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall.
扶壁，撑墙，拱壁
Example sentencesExamples
- The trunks of some of the trees were three times the girth of anything in Europe, and many had enormous walls of wood sprouting from their bases like the buttresses of gothic cathedrals.
- Up here, suspended dizzyingly more than 100 feet above the ground, it is easy to see how the great stone buttresses that support the magnificent cathedral have been eroded by time.
- The contrast is jaw-dropping; architectural values have been binned, and walls, windows and buttresses bunged in anywhere simply to prop up the facade at the front.
- Kain thanked the man and followed the directions, coming to a thickly built stone building with buttresses and smaller towers extending several stories above where the main building ended.
- Around the perimeter, massive brick buttresses provide lateral restraint.
- Typical of its period is the way the upper parts of the walls step back above the buttresses before reaching a straight parapet.
- Great stone buttresses stood on either side of the wall, giving support to the monumental structure and framing the temple grounds themselves.
- I leaned against the damp stone of the buttress, tilting my head to follow the line of the sheer wall up to where the ghosts of clouds raced before the moon.
- You will notice the buttresses, the porch, the crenellations on the walls, and the four light mullioned windows.
- This is no ordinary brick arch and buttress structure.
- There are vertical walls with jagged buttresses, sweeping canyons, arches, narrow gullies and fissures in the rock that develop into caves at the waterline.
- The frame acquired the architectural elements of its churchlike structure: columns, cornices, arches and traceries, buttresses, ornate roundels like rose windows.
- The remnant of a long-disused church building, it was built out of solid stone with massive buttresses supporting long, high walls.
- The handsome and much-photographed chimneys doubled as buttresses for added roof support.
- This emphasised that the structure is not in fact circular, but built in straight segments that may indicate radial walls or buttresses.
- The pub itself has been strengthened by buttresses to stop the subsidence worsening, and survived the tremor unscathed.
- The tower was built of massive columns, great white pillars, supported by beams and buttresses.
- They saw huge caverns, their roofs supported by great natural buttresses and pillars of rock.
- Very slender and elegant precast concrete arches span the space to bear on buttresses so massive that they provide alcoves off the big central space, the social heart of the academic community.
- The path goes up by the left side of the main buttress in front of you.
Synonyms
prop, support, abutment, shore, pier, reinforcement, stanchion, stay, strut
1. 1.1 A projecting portion of a hill or mountain.
  山边扶壁状凸出部分
  Example sentencesExamples
  A grassy bay separates this buttress from the fine slabs on Cir Mhor's SW face.
  Soon the views of the great buttresses and ridges and gullies of the north-east face begin to open up.
  Lion's Head stands to the north of Table Mountain, and the Apostles are the rocky buttresses behind it.
  A big drop followed, down over rough rock and scree to the Bealach an Fhuarian from where a great greyish-white buttress reared alarmingly.
  The beauty of the southeast buttress of Cathedral Peak is that it's all on, and it's all beautiful, classic, and fun.
  I suggested we descend an intermediate ridge, cut across the western cirque, climb the northwest buttress of Cloud Peak, circle around, and complete the entire enchainment in the reverse direction.
  Its position below the buttresses and ridges of Ben Nevis' convoluted north-east face really is outstanding.
  Across the valley the mute, cloud-shrouded buttresses of Johannesburg Mountain wait like ghosts.
  The high cliffs are riven and seared by gullies, prominent ridges, towers and buttresses.
  Return to the cairn and carry on up to the North Peak, where you can look down over the buttresses.
  We ate dried peaches, swigged iodized alpine water, and stared up at the pyramid-shaped northwest buttress of Cloud Peak.
  About five metres beyond the second, you'll see a shelf about head height on a buttress formed where a thin inlet enters.
  In spring, peregrines often nest near The Main Area or Red Slab and these buttresses should be avoided at this time.
  Hiking out, we talked about our ascent of the northwest buttress of Cloud Peak, trying to sound congratulatory.
  Then I look back at the mountain, but the clouds have descended and the buttresses have disappeared.
  After scaling a relatively easy 3,000-foot buttress and traversing a huge glacial plateau below the main face, the climbers will stash most of their gear.
  Pass above the steep buttresses to the summit then descend the Sron a’ Gharbh Choire Bhig back to your starting point.
  Near the head of the loch I pitched my tent in splendid, silent solitude on a grassy terrace beneath rocky buttresses and towering ridges.
  Just south lies the brooding notched ridge of Chlas Glas and Bla Bheinn, a great wall of spires, gullies and buttresses.
  I know there are innumerably more adventurous routes that trace their way by gully and buttress, ridge and groove up the massive north-east face of the Ben.
2A source of defense or support.
〈喻〉保卫力量；支持力量
there was a demand for a new stable order as a buttress against social collapse
Example sentencesExamples
- Stallman thus launched his movement to build a buttress against this trend, by developing a free operating system within which the freedoms he had known could continue.
- Chad was seen as a buttress against Libya.
- The Church is called a pillar and buttress because there are many local churches throughout the world performing this function.
- Male conservatives can then quote female operatives, using the sex of the original messenger as a buttress against similar complaints.
- Property and financial prosperity were powerful testimonies to the strength of each of these categories and a buttress to weak claims to either.
- In these short few weeks the coach must re-shape - he vehemently contests the description ‘rebuild’ - Rangers, with a new midfield, attack, and a defensive buttress or two.
- It means he can defend his own defence, with Nerlinger providing the buttress to protect the centre-backs.
- You'll simmer them quickly in their own juices with onion, garlic, and fresh basil, gentle buttresses for their full, robust flavor.
- The clergy did not do so because English kings were the protectors of the faith against heretics and a buttress against anticlerical attack.
- The main buttress of state security is the national defense capability and only after it comes the economic might.
- They were a more effective buttress of the Crown than its own bureaucracy or civil service.
- These statements only underscore the extent to which the unions and NDP are buttresses of the existing social order.
- The ‘truth’ becomes another buttress in the society's ideological infrastructure.
- As a buttress of the ugly martial law regime, it wrecked many more lives than those of these two kidnappers.
- At every stage in a fairytale life, the stoic sensible lovely Lancashire lass has been Tom's buttress, giving unstinting support and keeping his feet firmly on the ground.
- For the first time in human history the inferior man has no ready buttress for his self-regard.
- Even ‘reverence for the emperor, the most important ideological buttress of the old order, was evidently giving way’.

verbˈbətrəsˈbətrəs

[with object]

1Provide (a building or structure) with projecting supports built against its walls.
用扶壁支撑（建筑物等）
we buttressed the wall as it was showing signs of cracking and collapse
Example sentencesExamples
- Rafters were cut into mortised joints at the ridge, and braces buttress the walls in every direction.
- Preparing for all these people, and buttressing runways for a plane that can weigh 544 tonnes on takeoff, is not cheap.
- High, spidery scaffolding buttressed its walls on both sides, and though there was no one working now, Pres could see pails and rags scattered along the planking.
- For example, huge ‘flying shores’ had to be fitted to buttress the structure against movement.
- All the televisions were tuned to the Weather Channel and workers buttressed the hotel's smoked-glass windows with sheets of plywood.
- Although these thrusts can be resolved by tensile reinforcing in the perimeter beams it is simplest, and most natural, and stable to use the building itself to buttress the horizontal thrusts.
- But he saw too that these same houses were surrounded by high walls, all heavily buttressed against the regular earthquakes.
- The outer walls were buttressed with typical large blocks while within, they were fashioned from small unfinished stones mortared into place, reminding one of a traditional castle or keep in Avalon or Torrencia.
- It is more economical to buttress it at certain intervals than to make the entire wall thicker.
- A protective structure adapted to buttress opposed upright walls of an excavation.
2Increase the strength of or justification for; reinforce.
〈喻〉加强；支持；加固
authority was buttressed by religious belief
权威得到宗教信仰的支撑。
Example sentencesExamples
- The southern Cape's political strength is very much buttressed because the party's Provincial Leader is the mayor of George.
- The move buttresses Hormel's long-standing strategy to form joint ventures with Mexican, Asian, Indian and Mediterranean brands to cater to the growing ethnic population.
- The Athenian polis, buttressed by the strength of its Council of Five Hundred and Assembly of citizens, managed to gain control of a confederation of city-states which gradually became the Athenian Empire.
- It is as if their role in life is to appease, and even buttress, the white liberal conscience while naturally continuing to do all the dirty work.
- By this reckoning, buoyant growth will boost wages and salaries, giving home buyers the extra money they need to cover their increased borrowing costs and so buttress housing.
- Remember, these thinly capitalized companies' insurance buttress truly enormous quantities of securities.
- Whether in business or politics, partnerships are supposed to buttress the strengths of those involved.
- Nevertheless, many private landowners maintain feeders and dole out mineral supplements to retain the deer and buttress antler growth.
- And small-world experiences that we encounter naturally buttress people's religious faith as evidence of ‘design.’
- In other words, participant observers frequently buttress their observations with methods of data collection that allow them access to important areas that are not amenable to observation.
- I was expecting at least a stout defence, and probably new evidence that would help buttress his case, but he barely rated a mention in Trevor Mallard's speech, and I will tell the members why.
- We regard Article 10 as reinforcing and buttressing the conclusions we have reached and set out above.
- Cable and satellite operators seldom disclose subscription numbers, but what numbers are available buttress Peck's point.
- The evidence about human genetic differences in cognition found in psychometric research increasingly is getting buttressed by results from biological research.
- Transmitted to Washington by the British, the Zimmermann telegram helped buttress President Woodrow Wilson's decision to call for a declaration of war against Germany.
- Wenger noted that sustained workplace relationships and interaction buttress communities of practice.
- He had read a great deal of history, but he does not buttress his position by quoting from historical sources, as he was later to do.
- Ultimately, though, this fear of sexuality buttresses Bulosan's inability to perceive the material realities of prostitution and sexual abuse.
- When analysts can cite other experts, whether private sector or foreign liaison, they add to their own credibility - experts talk to other experts - as well as buttress their argument.
- By waging geopolitical wars, clamping down on immigration and regulating the mobility of capital, it buttresses its own authority, and maintains the false boundaries of nation-states.
Synonyms
strengthen, reinforce, fortify, support, prop up, bolster up, shore up, underpin, cement, brace, uphold, confirm, defend, maintain, back up, buoy up

Origin

Middle English: from Old French (ars) bouterez ‘thrusting (arch)’, from boter ‘to strike or thrust’ (see butt).

词汇	buttress
释义	Definition of buttress in English: buttress nounˈbʌtrɪsˈbətrəs 1A structure of stone or brick built against a wall to strengthen or support it. 扶壁，撑墙，拱壁 the cathedral's massive buttresses Example sentencesExamples The path goes up by the left side of the main buttress in front of you. Kain thanked the man and followed the directions, coming to a thickly built stone building with buttresses and smaller towers extending several stories above where the main building ended. The tower was built of massive columns, great white pillars, supported by beams and buttresses. They saw huge caverns, their roofs supported by great natural buttresses and pillars of rock. Up here, suspended dizzyingly more than 100 feet above the ground, it is easy to see how the great stone buttresses that support the magnificent cathedral have been eroded by time. The frame acquired the architectural elements of its churchlike structure: columns, cornices, arches and traceries, buttresses, ornate roundels like rose windows. You will notice the buttresses, the porch, the crenellations on the walls, and the four light mullioned windows. The handsome and much-photographed chimneys doubled as buttresses for added roof support. I leaned against the damp stone of the buttress, tilting my head to follow the line of the sheer wall up to where the ghosts of clouds raced before the moon. This is no ordinary brick arch and buttress structure. There are vertical walls with jagged buttresses, sweeping canyons, arches, narrow gullies and fissures in the rock that develop into caves at the waterline. The contrast is jaw-dropping; architectural values have been binned, and walls, windows and buttresses bunged in anywhere simply to prop up the facade at the front. This emphasised that the structure is not in fact circular, but built in straight segments that may indicate radial walls or buttresses. Around the perimeter, massive brick buttresses provide lateral restraint. The trunks of some of the trees were three times the girth of anything in Europe, and many had enormous walls of wood sprouting from their bases like the buttresses of gothic cathedrals. Great stone buttresses stood on either side of the wall, giving support to the monumental structure and framing the temple grounds themselves. The remnant of a long-disused church building, it was built out of solid stone with massive buttresses supporting long, high walls. Very slender and elegant precast concrete arches span the space to bear on buttresses so massive that they provide alcoves off the big central space, the social heart of the academic community. The pub itself has been strengthened by buttresses to stop the subsidence worsening, and survived the tremor unscathed. Typical of its period is the way the upper parts of the walls step back above the buttresses before reaching a straight parapet. Synonyms prop, support, abutment, shore, pier, reinforcement, stanchion, stay, strut 1.1 A projecting portion of a hill or mountain. 山边扶壁状凸出部分 Example sentencesExamples The beauty of the southeast buttress of Cathedral Peak is that it's all on, and it's all beautiful, classic, and fun. A grassy bay separates this buttress from the fine slabs on Cir Mhor's SW face. A big drop followed, down over rough rock and scree to the Bealach an Fhuarian from where a great greyish-white buttress reared alarmingly. The high cliffs are riven and seared by gullies, prominent ridges, towers and buttresses. Return to the cairn and carry on up to the North Peak, where you can look down over the buttresses. Soon the views of the great buttresses and ridges and gullies of the north-east face begin to open up. I know there are innumerably more adventurous routes that trace their way by gully and buttress, ridge and groove up the massive north-east face of the Ben. Pass above the steep buttresses to the summit then descend the Sron a’ Gharbh Choire Bhig back to your starting point. We ate dried peaches, swigged iodized alpine water, and stared up at the pyramid-shaped northwest buttress of Cloud Peak. Hiking out, we talked about our ascent of the northwest buttress of Cloud Peak, trying to sound congratulatory. I suggested we descend an intermediate ridge, cut across the western cirque, climb the northwest buttress of Cloud Peak, circle around, and complete the entire enchainment in the reverse direction. In spring, peregrines often nest near The Main Area or Red Slab and these buttresses should be avoided at this time. Then I look back at the mountain, but the clouds have descended and the buttresses have disappeared. About five metres beyond the second, you'll see a shelf about head height on a buttress formed where a thin inlet enters. Lion's Head stands to the north of Table Mountain, and the Apostles are the rocky buttresses behind it. Just south lies the brooding notched ridge of Chlas Glas and Bla Bheinn, a great wall of spires, gullies and buttresses. After scaling a relatively easy 3,000-foot buttress and traversing a huge glacial plateau below the main face, the climbers will stash most of their gear. Its position below the buttresses and ridges of Ben Nevis' convoluted north-east face really is outstanding. Across the valley the mute, cloud-shrouded buttresses of Johannesburg Mountain wait like ghosts. Near the head of the loch I pitched my tent in splendid, silent solitude on a grassy terrace beneath rocky buttresses and towering ridges. 2A source of defence or support. 〈喻〉保卫力量；支持力量 the political police were the main buttress of the regime 政治警察是该政权的主要支柱。 Example sentencesExamples As a buttress of the ugly martial law regime, it wrecked many more lives than those of these two kidnappers. Even ‘reverence for the emperor, the most important ideological buttress of the old order, was evidently giving way’. The clergy did not do so because English kings were the protectors of the faith against heretics and a buttress against anticlerical attack. They were a more effective buttress of the Crown than its own bureaucracy or civil service. Property and financial prosperity were powerful testimonies to the strength of each of these categories and a buttress to weak claims to either. The Church is called a pillar and buttress because there are many local churches throughout the world performing this function. It means he can defend his own defence, with Nerlinger providing the buttress to protect the centre-backs. Chad was seen as a buttress against Libya. For the first time in human history the inferior man has no ready buttress for his self-regard. At every stage in a fairytale life, the stoic sensible lovely Lancashire lass has been Tom's buttress, giving unstinting support and keeping his feet firmly on the ground. In these short few weeks the coach must re-shape - he vehemently contests the description ‘rebuild’ - Rangers, with a new midfield, attack, and a defensive buttress or two. These statements only underscore the extent to which the unions and NDP are buttresses of the existing social order. Male conservatives can then quote female operatives, using the sex of the original messenger as a buttress against similar complaints. Stallman thus launched his movement to build a buttress against this trend, by developing a free operating system within which the freedoms he had known could continue. You'll simmer them quickly in their own juices with onion, garlic, and fresh basil, gentle buttresses for their full, robust flavor. The main buttress of state security is the national defense capability and only after it comes the economic might. The ‘truth’ becomes another buttress in the society's ideological infrastructure. verbˈbʌtrɪsˈbətrəs [with object] 1Provide (a building or structure) with buttresses. 用扶壁支撑（建筑物等） we buttressed the wall as it was showing signs of cracking and collapse Example sentencesExamples Preparing for all these people, and buttressing runways for a plane that can weigh 544 tonnes on takeoff, is not cheap. It is more economical to buttress it at certain intervals than to make the entire wall thicker. For example, huge ‘flying shores’ had to be fitted to buttress the structure against movement. All the televisions were tuned to the Weather Channel and workers buttressed the hotel's smoked-glass windows with sheets of plywood. The outer walls were buttressed with typical large blocks while within, they were fashioned from small unfinished stones mortared into place, reminding one of a traditional castle or keep in Avalon or Torrencia. A protective structure adapted to buttress opposed upright walls of an excavation. High, spidery scaffolding buttressed its walls on both sides, and though there was no one working now, Pres could see pails and rags scattered along the planking. But he saw too that these same houses were surrounded by high walls, all heavily buttressed against the regular earthquakes. Rafters were cut into mortised joints at the ridge, and braces buttress the walls in every direction. Although these thrusts can be resolved by tensile reinforcing in the perimeter beams it is simplest, and most natural, and stable to use the building itself to buttress the horizontal thrusts. 2Increase the strength of or justification for; reinforce. 〈喻〉加强；支持；加固 authority was buttressed by religious belief 权威得到宗教信仰的支撑。 Example sentencesExamples The evidence about human genetic differences in cognition found in psychometric research increasingly is getting buttressed by results from biological research. Transmitted to Washington by the British, the Zimmermann telegram helped buttress President Woodrow Wilson's decision to call for a declaration of war against Germany. The move buttresses Hormel's long-standing strategy to form joint ventures with Mexican, Asian, Indian and Mediterranean brands to cater to the growing ethnic population. Wenger noted that sustained workplace relationships and interaction buttress communities of practice. In other words, participant observers frequently buttress their observations with methods of data collection that allow them access to important areas that are not amenable to observation. It is as if their role in life is to appease, and even buttress, the white liberal conscience while naturally continuing to do all the dirty work. He had read a great deal of history, but he does not buttress his position by quoting from historical sources, as he was later to do. Nevertheless, many private landowners maintain feeders and dole out mineral supplements to retain the deer and buttress antler growth. Ultimately, though, this fear of sexuality buttresses Bulosan's inability to perceive the material realities of prostitution and sexual abuse. Whether in business or politics, partnerships are supposed to buttress the strengths of those involved. The Athenian polis, buttressed by the strength of its Council of Five Hundred and Assembly of citizens, managed to gain control of a confederation of city-states which gradually became the Athenian Empire. When analysts can cite other experts, whether private sector or foreign liaison, they add to their own credibility - experts talk to other experts - as well as buttress their argument. I was expecting at least a stout defence, and probably new evidence that would help buttress his case, but he barely rated a mention in Trevor Mallard's speech, and I will tell the members why. Remember, these thinly capitalized companies' insurance buttress truly enormous quantities of securities. Cable and satellite operators seldom disclose subscription numbers, but what numbers are available buttress Peck's point. The southern Cape's political strength is very much buttressed because the party's Provincial Leader is the mayor of George. By this reckoning, buoyant growth will boost wages and salaries, giving home buyers the extra money they need to cover their increased borrowing costs and so buttress housing. By waging geopolitical wars, clamping down on immigration and regulating the mobility of capital, it buttresses its own authority, and maintains the false boundaries of nation-states. We regard Article 10 as reinforcing and buttressing the conclusions we have reached and set out above. And small-world experiences that we encounter naturally buttress people's religious faith as evidence of ‘design.’ Synonyms strengthen, reinforce, fortify, support, prop up, bolster up, shore up, underpin, cement, brace, uphold, confirm, defend, maintain, back up, buoy up Origin Middle English: from Old French (ars) bouterez 'thrusting (arch)', from boter 'to strike or thrust' (see butt¹). Definition of buttress in US English: buttress nounˈbətrəsˈbətrəs 1A projecting support of stone or brick built against a wall. 扶壁，撑墙，拱壁 Example sentencesExamples The trunks of some of the trees were three times the girth of anything in Europe, and many had enormous walls of wood sprouting from their bases like the buttresses of gothic cathedrals. Up here, suspended dizzyingly more than 100 feet above the ground, it is easy to see how the great stone buttresses that support the magnificent cathedral have been eroded by time. The contrast is jaw-dropping; architectural values have been binned, and walls, windows and buttresses bunged in anywhere simply to prop up the facade at the front. Kain thanked the man and followed the directions, coming to a thickly built stone building with buttresses and smaller towers extending several stories above where the main building ended. Around the perimeter, massive brick buttresses provide lateral restraint. Typical of its period is the way the upper parts of the walls step back above the buttresses before reaching a straight parapet. Great stone buttresses stood on either side of the wall, giving support to the monumental structure and framing the temple grounds themselves. I leaned against the damp stone of the buttress, tilting my head to follow the line of the sheer wall up to where the ghosts of clouds raced before the moon. You will notice the buttresses, the porch, the crenellations on the walls, and the four light mullioned windows. This is no ordinary brick arch and buttress structure. There are vertical walls with jagged buttresses, sweeping canyons, arches, narrow gullies and fissures in the rock that develop into caves at the waterline. The frame acquired the architectural elements of its churchlike structure: columns, cornices, arches and traceries, buttresses, ornate roundels like rose windows. The remnant of a long-disused church building, it was built out of solid stone with massive buttresses supporting long, high walls. The handsome and much-photographed chimneys doubled as buttresses for added roof support. This emphasised that the structure is not in fact circular, but built in straight segments that may indicate radial walls or buttresses. The pub itself has been strengthened by buttresses to stop the subsidence worsening, and survived the tremor unscathed. The tower was built of massive columns, great white pillars, supported by beams and buttresses. They saw huge caverns, their roofs supported by great natural buttresses and pillars of rock. Very slender and elegant precast concrete arches span the space to bear on buttresses so massive that they provide alcoves off the big central space, the social heart of the academic community. The path goes up by the left side of the main buttress in front of you. Synonyms prop, support, abutment, shore, pier, reinforcement, stanchion, stay, strut 1.1 A projecting portion of a hill or mountain. 山边扶壁状凸出部分 Example sentencesExamples A grassy bay separates this buttress from the fine slabs on Cir Mhor's SW face. Soon the views of the great buttresses and ridges and gullies of the north-east face begin to open up. Lion's Head stands to the north of Table Mountain, and the Apostles are the rocky buttresses behind it. A big drop followed, down over rough rock and scree to the Bealach an Fhuarian from where a great greyish-white buttress reared alarmingly. The beauty of the southeast buttress of Cathedral Peak is that it's all on, and it's all beautiful, classic, and fun. I suggested we descend an intermediate ridge, cut across the western cirque, climb the northwest buttress of Cloud Peak, circle around, and complete the entire enchainment in the reverse direction. Its position below the buttresses and ridges of Ben Nevis' convoluted north-east face really is outstanding. Across the valley the mute, cloud-shrouded buttresses of Johannesburg Mountain wait like ghosts. The high cliffs are riven and seared by gullies, prominent ridges, towers and buttresses. Return to the cairn and carry on up to the North Peak, where you can look down over the buttresses. We ate dried peaches, swigged iodized alpine water, and stared up at the pyramid-shaped northwest buttress of Cloud Peak. About five metres beyond the second, you'll see a shelf about head height on a buttress formed where a thin inlet enters. In spring, peregrines often nest near The Main Area or Red Slab and these buttresses should be avoided at this time. Hiking out, we talked about our ascent of the northwest buttress of Cloud Peak, trying to sound congratulatory. Then I look back at the mountain, but the clouds have descended and the buttresses have disappeared. After scaling a relatively easy 3,000-foot buttress and traversing a huge glacial plateau below the main face, the climbers will stash most of their gear. Pass above the steep buttresses to the summit then descend the Sron a’ Gharbh Choire Bhig back to your starting point. Near the head of the loch I pitched my tent in splendid, silent solitude on a grassy terrace beneath rocky buttresses and towering ridges. Just south lies the brooding notched ridge of Chlas Glas and Bla Bheinn, a great wall of spires, gullies and buttresses. I know there are innumerably more adventurous routes that trace their way by gully and buttress, ridge and groove up the massive north-east face of the Ben. 2A source of defense or support. 〈喻〉保卫力量；支持力量 there was a demand for a new stable order as a buttress against social collapse Example sentencesExamples Stallman thus launched his movement to build a buttress against this trend, by developing a free operating system within which the freedoms he had known could continue. Chad was seen as a buttress against Libya. The Church is called a pillar and buttress because there are many local churches throughout the world performing this function. Male conservatives can then quote female operatives, using the sex of the original messenger as a buttress against similar complaints. Property and financial prosperity were powerful testimonies to the strength of each of these categories and a buttress to weak claims to either. In these short few weeks the coach must re-shape - he vehemently contests the description ‘rebuild’ - Rangers, with a new midfield, attack, and a defensive buttress or two. It means he can defend his own defence, with Nerlinger providing the buttress to protect the centre-backs. You'll simmer them quickly in their own juices with onion, garlic, and fresh basil, gentle buttresses for their full, robust flavor. The clergy did not do so because English kings were the protectors of the faith against heretics and a buttress against anticlerical attack. The main buttress of state security is the national defense capability and only after it comes the economic might. They were a more effective buttress of the Crown than its own bureaucracy or civil service. These statements only underscore the extent to which the unions and NDP are buttresses of the existing social order. The ‘truth’ becomes another buttress in the society's ideological infrastructure. As a buttress of the ugly martial law regime, it wrecked many more lives than those of these two kidnappers. At every stage in a fairytale life, the stoic sensible lovely Lancashire lass has been Tom's buttress, giving unstinting support and keeping his feet firmly on the ground. For the first time in human history the inferior man has no ready buttress for his self-regard. Even ‘reverence for the emperor, the most important ideological buttress of the old order, was evidently giving way’. verbˈbətrəsˈbətrəs [with object] 1Provide (a building or structure) with projecting supports built against its walls. 用扶壁支撑（建筑物等） we buttressed the wall as it was showing signs of cracking and collapse Example sentencesExamples Rafters were cut into mortised joints at the ridge, and braces buttress the walls in every direction. Preparing for all these people, and buttressing runways for a plane that can weigh 544 tonnes on takeoff, is not cheap. High, spidery scaffolding buttressed its walls on both sides, and though there was no one working now, Pres could see pails and rags scattered along the planking. For example, huge ‘flying shores’ had to be fitted to buttress the structure against movement. All the televisions were tuned to the Weather Channel and workers buttressed the hotel's smoked-glass windows with sheets of plywood. Although these thrusts can be resolved by tensile reinforcing in the perimeter beams it is simplest, and most natural, and stable to use the building itself to buttress the horizontal thrusts. But he saw too that these same houses were surrounded by high walls, all heavily buttressed against the regular earthquakes. The outer walls were buttressed with typical large blocks while within, they were fashioned from small unfinished stones mortared into place, reminding one of a traditional castle or keep in Avalon or Torrencia. It is more economical to buttress it at certain intervals than to make the entire wall thicker. A protective structure adapted to buttress opposed upright walls of an excavation. 2Increase the strength of or justification for; reinforce. 〈喻〉加强；支持；加固 authority was buttressed by religious belief 权威得到宗教信仰的支撑。 Example sentencesExamples The southern Cape's political strength is very much buttressed because the party's Provincial Leader is the mayor of George. The move buttresses Hormel's long-standing strategy to form joint ventures with Mexican, Asian, Indian and Mediterranean brands to cater to the growing ethnic population. The Athenian polis, buttressed by the strength of its Council of Five Hundred and Assembly of citizens, managed to gain control of a confederation of city-states which gradually became the Athenian Empire. It is as if their role in life is to appease, and even buttress, the white liberal conscience while naturally continuing to do all the dirty work. By this reckoning, buoyant growth will boost wages and salaries, giving home buyers the extra money they need to cover their increased borrowing costs and so buttress housing. Remember, these thinly capitalized companies' insurance buttress truly enormous quantities of securities. Whether in business or politics, partnerships are supposed to buttress the strengths of those involved. Nevertheless, many private landowners maintain feeders and dole out mineral supplements to retain the deer and buttress antler growth. And small-world experiences that we encounter naturally buttress people's religious faith as evidence of ‘design.’ In other words, participant observers frequently buttress their observations with methods of data collection that allow them access to important areas that are not amenable to observation. I was expecting at least a stout defence, and probably new evidence that would help buttress his case, but he barely rated a mention in Trevor Mallard's speech, and I will tell the members why. We regard Article 10 as reinforcing and buttressing the conclusions we have reached and set out above. Cable and satellite operators seldom disclose subscription numbers, but what numbers are available buttress Peck's point. The evidence about human genetic differences in cognition found in psychometric research increasingly is getting buttressed by results from biological research. Transmitted to Washington by the British, the Zimmermann telegram helped buttress President Woodrow Wilson's decision to call for a declaration of war against Germany. Wenger noted that sustained workplace relationships and interaction buttress communities of practice. He had read a great deal of history, but he does not buttress his position by quoting from historical sources, as he was later to do. Ultimately, though, this fear of sexuality buttresses Bulosan's inability to perceive the material realities of prostitution and sexual abuse. When analysts can cite other experts, whether private sector or foreign liaison, they add to their own credibility - experts talk to other experts - as well as buttress their argument. By waging geopolitical wars, clamping down on immigration and regulating the mobility of capital, it buttresses its own authority, and maintains the false boundaries of nation-states. Synonyms strengthen, reinforce, fortify, support, prop up, bolster up, shore up, underpin, cement, brace, uphold, confirm, defend, maintain, back up, buoy up Origin Middle English: from Old French (ars) bouterez ‘thrusting (arch)’, from boter ‘to strike or thrust’ (see butt).
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