firm up

英 [fɜːm ʌp]

美 [fɜːrm ʌp]

（使）更坚固; （使）更坚实; （使）更明确; 强化; （使）确切; 使（价格、价值等）保持坚挺（或稳定）

英英释义

verb

• arrange firmly
  1. firm up one's plans

双语例句

• This time of year, as department heads firm up their budgets for 2012, is the right moment to negotiate a pay hike.
  在这个时候，部门经理要开始制订2012年的预算，这正是一个要求提高薪水的好时机。
• They lost a number of planes; the count takes a day or so to firm up.
  他们损失了若干飞机，具体数字要一，两天才能证实。
• Effective measures should be taken to firm up the prices.
  应该采取有效措施稳定物价。
• Once we understand the questions needed to assess progress to goals, we then firm up the measurement model with the specific metrics required to form the answer to those questions.
  一旦您理解了需要评估目标的问题，之后我们将使用特定的必要矩阵来组织问题的答案的方法建立度量模型。
• Exercise will firm up your muscles.
  锻炼身体能使肌肉结实。
• We should be able to firm up the agreement today.
  我们今天应该能把协议确定下来。
• They've agreed to firm up their peacekeeping force.
  他们已同意加强他们维和部队的力量。
• Firm up one's plans. All these problems should be dealt with appropriately.
  妥善安排一个人的计划。这些问题都要妥善解决。
• Astronomers won't have to wait that long to firm up their understanding of the outer solar system, though: Sicardy and his team already have occultations in hand from other Kuiper Belt objects.
  但天文学家们不必等那久来证实他们对太阳系外层的理解。斯卡德和他的团队已经掌握了其它柯伊伯带星体的掩星。
• This treatment helps tone the body, firm up muscles and tighten the skin
  该治疗有助于强身健体、紧致皮肤。