撐住說法：讓它站得住的資料
最接近核心畫面的用法：被撐住的不是屋頂，而是一個說法或一份申請。
adjective · B2
Helping something to keep going or to be believed — used before nouns like evidence, documents, facts and reasons to mean that they back up a claim, a plan or an application.
佐證的／輔助的
核心畫面
Think of something standing underneath another thing and taking its weight. The thing on top is what people look at; the thing underneath is the reason it stays up. Every use of supporting can be read from that picture — a wall under a roof, a document under a claim, an actor under the main part.
可以想成一樣東西站在另一樣東西的下面，把它的重量接住。大家的眼睛看的是上面那個。真正讓它不倒的，是下面那個。supp…更多收起
可以想成一樣東西站在另一樣東西的下面，把它的重量接住。大家的眼睛看的是上面那個。真正讓它不倒的，是下面那個。supporting 的每一種用法，都可以從這個畫面讀出來：牆在屋頂下面、文件在說法下面、配角在主角旁邊。它從來不是主角，但少了它，主角站不住。Three branches
戲裡的配角：在旁邊把主角接住
被撐住的東西換成了一場戲和戲裡的主角。
adjective · B2
In words like supporting role, supporting part, supporting actor and supporting cast: a smaller part in a play, film or show, next to the main part, or the person who acts that part.
配角的
承重的結構：真的在扛重量
核心畫面最字面的那一端：扛的是實際的重量。
adjective · B2
In words like supporting wall, supporting beam and supporting column: holding up the weight of what is above it, so that the roof, floor or building does not fall.
承重的
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
supportingadj/səˈpɔɹtɪŋ/
- 1
That supports.
supportingnoun/səˈpɔɹtɪŋ/
- 1
That which supports something else; a support.
- But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]
- […] the pumps could he installed at once on the completion of the pump-house supportings.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。