Buttress

(noun.) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building.

(verb.) make stronger or defensible; 'buttress your thesis'.

(verb.) reinforce with a buttress; 'Buttress the church'.

卡特编辑

• She glanced behind, and with a wild cry of laughter and challenge, veered, poised, and was gone beyond the grey stone buttress. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• On the highest point stood the church--an ancient, weather-beaten building, with heavy buttresses at its sides, and a clumsy square tower in front. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• There was a soldier standing with his girl in the shadow of one of the stone buttresses ahead of us and we passed them. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

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