English Dictionary

buttress

/ˈbʌtɹəs/

verb

To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress. / (figuratively, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.

He used steel beams to buttress the crumbling wall.

意味（1）

To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.

意味（2）

(figuratively, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.

Buttressed by elaborate account statements and a deep reservoir of trust from his investors and regulators, Mr. Madoff steered his fraud scheme safely through a severe recession in the early 1990s, a global financial crisis in 1998 and the anxious aftermath of the terrorist attacks in September 2001.