shore up
英 [ʃɔː(r) ʌp]
美 [ʃɔːr ʌp]
支撑; 支持; 加强
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 支撑;支持;加强
If youshore upsomething that is weak or about to fail, you do something in order to strengthen it or support it.- The democracies of the West may find it hard to shore up their defences.
西方的民主国家可能会发现很难自圆其说。
- The democracies of the West may find it hard to shore up their defences.
英英释义
verb
- support by placing against something solid or rigid
- shore and buttress an old building
双语例句
- Second, it has to shore up Europes banks to ensure they can withstand a sovereign default.
其次，大力支持欧元区银行，确保他们经受住主权债务违约危机。 - Swift action is needed on the part of eurozone members to shore up confidence in its crippled banking sector.
欧元区成员国必须迅速采取行动，提振投资者对处境维艰的欧洲银行业的信心。 - They tried to shore up the failing economy by means of tax increases.
他们企图藉由增加税收的办法来支撑起日益衰落的经济。 - In Shanghai, government moves to shore up the markets continued to boost confidence.
在上海，政府的托市举措仍在激励着投资者的信心。 - The Russians have also intervened to shore up the rouble.
俄罗斯还曾入市干预，以提振卢布。 - We have to find something to shore up the sagging floors, otherwise it would soon fall down.
我们必须找些东西去支撑那日益下降的楼板，否则很快它们就会塌落下来。 - But this was partly to shore up support for the North American Free-Trade Agreement.
但是这在一定程度上扶持了它对北美自由贸易协定的支持。 - Government interventions to shore up the housing market add an extra element of unpredictability.
政府支撑房地产市场的干预行动则为其增添了额外的不可预知性。 - It has also stopped the authorities raising cash to shore up China's underfunded national pension scheme.
产权市场的不发达还限制官方增发现金支持资金不足的国家养老金计划。 - Shore up that left flank and keep firing!
支援左翼，保持火力！