supporting

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sup·port·ing /səˈpɔːtɪŋ $ -ɔːr-/ adjectiveadj

1. supporting part/role/actor etc AMAPa small part in a play or film, or the actor who plays such a part 配角（演员）

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supporting part/role/actor etc• At a crucial moment, the United States played an important supporting role.• Its most unarguable successes are in the main supporting roles.• The meats are unfailingly tender and flavorful, and the stuffed tomatoes deserve a Tony Award for best supporting actor.• The three supporting roles are all superbly played.• Hopper won a supporting role in that film too.• Benicio Del Toro won the best supporting actor prize for Traffic.• But the chief joy despite several eye-catching supporting roles remains watching Courtenay milk the script for all its worth.• He felt the other two were satisfied to play supporting roles to Gedge and to a lesser extent, himself.

2. supporting wall/beam etc TBBSUPPORT/HOLD UPa wall etc that supports the weight of something 承重墙/梁等

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supporting wall/beam etc• There was a portico, generally of wood, with posts supporting beams, and decoration was in terracotta.• The roof was in an appalling state and the supporting beams were rotten.

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supporting• There were plenty of supporting arguments in the works of Marx and Engels for such an endeavour.• The Home Office had set up its own Research Unit in 1957, in addition to supporting criminological research in the universities and elsewhere.• The Regulations themselves set out only the main performance criteria with the technical detail set out in supporting documents.• The World Cup Final in Rome will attract a worldwide audience of nearly one billion, the largest for any supporting event.• History books have their main ideas, supporting evidence and factual details arranged in a particular manner.• He outlined three main lines of supporting evidence.• I hope, it will lead, after the election, to his supporting us in putting its main recommendations into effect.

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