1.从下方支持,用东西支撑(建筑物等);加固,使坚固;支援,支持
1.to be an important basic part of something, allowing it to succeed or continue to exist
2.to support something such as a wall by putting a strong piece of metal or concrete under it
1.This underpins their show of unity, despite big differences in the size and nature of their emissions.
这加强了他们的团结，即便他们在温室气体排放数量和排放本质上有巨大差异。
2.We have no choice but to embrace it, he says, because we are already symbiotic with it; technology underpins civilisation.
我们只能接受这一点，他说，因为我们早已与之共生；科技巩固文化。
3.As you may know, Equinox, the OSGi implementation that underpins Eclipse, is being used quite extensively on servers these days.
你也知道，Equinox这个支撑Eclipse的OSGi实现如今在服务器上使用得相当广泛。
4.They know Britain is not about to adopt proportional representation, the voting system that underpins continental coalitions.
他们心里清楚得很，英国绝对不可能实行欧洲大陆联合政府奉行的比例代表投票制。
5.As the big writedowns begin, British banks are now starting to beef up the capital that underpins their operations.
随着资产大幅缩水，英国银行开始加强资本以确保正常的经营。
6.Size underpins the affordability with which these states can borrow.
规模是政府借债成本的基础。
7.If the argument is lost in any of the major world economies, the political consensus that underpins globalisation could unravel.
如果这种主张在任何一个主要全球经济体中不能站住脚，作为全球化基石的政治共识就可能瓦解。
8.We can consider narrative grammar as a form of the organization of the human imagination that underpins all forms of discourses.
从这一角度来看，叙事语法实际上就是统领一切话语的基础。
9.Once you realize that SAX underpins most XML processing, you know that SAX is then the key to good error handling.
只要意识到SAX是多数XML处理的基础，那么将会明白SAX是高质量错误处理的核心。
10.a consistent set of principles that underpins Barack Obama's thinking on the American economy.
underpin有支撑之意。不如：支撑奥巴马对美国经济想法的一系列原则。