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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

verb

• support by placing against something solid or rigid
  1. shore and buttress an old building
  Synonym:prop uppropshore

双语例句

• At the same time the intervention aims to shore up confidence among foreign investors in US dollar assets.
  干预行动的另一个目标是增强外国投资者对美元资产的信心。
• 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。
• 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 government used subsidies to shore up farm prices.
  政府利用津贴去支撑起农产品价格。
• Shore up that left flank and keep firing!
  支援左翼，保持火力！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• On Sunday China cut benchmark interest rates for the third time in six months to shore up flagging activity.
  上周日，中国在六个月内第三次下调基准利率，以提振疲弱的经济活动。