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
- The EBA had given those banks until April 2012 to implement plans to shore up their capital buffers.
eba要求这些银行在2012年4月前采取行动增加资本缓冲。 - We've got to shore up our budget, and bring down our deficits.
我们需要削减我们的预算,将我们的赤字降下来。 - To shore up profits, companies are cutting costs, and that includes money for new technology.
为了保障利润,企业纷纷削减包括新技术开支在内的各项成本。 - 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 immediate aim is to shore up Fatah and avert a Gaza-style collapse in the much larger West Bank.
这样做的直接的目的是支持法塔赫,以避免在较大的约旦河西岸出现类似加沙式的溃乱状态。 - Clever, skilled employees require less management, constantly teach you new things, and shore up your weaknesses.
聪明、技能熟练的员工无需太多管理,还可以教给你新的技能,甚至可以弥补你的缺点。 - 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。 - It may even shore up growth and lighten the public debt burden.
这种投资甚至有可能支撑经济增长,减轻公共债务负担。 - 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。 - The government used subsidies to shore up farm prices.
政府利用津贴去支撑起农产品价格。