Advocate

(noun.) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea.

(noun.) a lawyer who pleads cases in court.

手打:内蒂

• 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.

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