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发音：[ˈædvəkət]
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例句：
- If a person advocates higher salaries for teachers, he or she supports that schools pay more money for teachers.
- Also as a noun, an advocate is a person who represents another person’s interests, like a lawyer does.
- Abortion rights advocates have filed suit against the state’s 15-week ban on abortion; last week, the new court agreed to hear the case.
- Food safety advocates and parents have asked regulators for years to require companies to include warning labels on their powdered formula about the risks to newborns.
- Employees in all kinds of industries are organizing themselves into labor unions to advocate for equitable working conditions.
- Many crypto advocates are pushing for more drastic reforms, urging investors not to store their digital holdings with big companies and instead turn to more experimental platforms run solely by code.
- The major tech companies will likely testify to “how great they are for small businesses,” said Sarah Miller, deputy director of the Open Markets Institute, a progressive think tank that advocates against monopolies.
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解释：
- Advocate这个单词作为动词，其表示“to support or argue for something”这一含义，即“提倡/拥护/支持”，与support/endorse/propose/champion这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- Many environmentalists advocate agricultural methods designed to slow the destruction of rain forests.（许多环保主义者提倡旨在减缓雨林破坏的农业方法。）
—Science - The candidate wants to upgrade the state’s taxpaying systems to make it easier for business owners, and to advocate for the state’s finances to be used in a way that makes the climate more sustainable.（候选人希望升级该州的纳税系统，使企业主更容易，并倡导以使气候更具可持续性的方式使用该州的财政。）
—Politics - For the first time, the latest UN report is expected to advocate measures to reduce greenhouse gases such as planting trees and carbon capture and storage（预计最新的联合国报告将首次倡导减少温室气体的措施，例如植树，碳捕获和存储。）
—Science - Soccer player Fedor Smolov became the first Russian footballer to call out Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, advocating for “no war” in a post on social media.（足球运动员费多尔·斯莫洛夫周四成为第一位呼吁弗拉基米尔·普京入侵乌克兰的俄罗斯足球运动员，他在社交媒体上的一篇文章中倡导 “不战争”。）
—Sports
3. 除了作动词外，advocate这个单词也在大量语境下充当名词使用，其表示“someone who supports or argues for something”，即“拥护者/支持者/提倡者”，与proponent/supporter/advocator这些单词构成近义词。
4. 具体使用语境如下：
- Many environmental advocates are skeptical of carbon capture tech, which oil and gas companies have been pushing as a way to keep demand high for dirtier fuels.（许多环保倡导者对碳捕获技术持怀疑态度，石油和天然气公司一直在推动这种技术，以保持对更脏燃料的高需求。）
—Technology - Anti-abortion advocates are pressing for expanded abortion bans and tighter restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion.（自最高法院推翻国家堕胎权以来，反堕胎倡导者正在敦促扩大堕胎禁令和更严格的限制。）
—Culture - Environmental advocates say Amazon is capable of much more to reduce plastic waste, as evidenced by steps the company has already taken in other countries.（环保倡导者表示，亚马逊在减少塑料垃圾方面的能力要大得多，该公司已经在其他国家采取的措施证明了这一点。）
—Business
