square up

英 [skweə(r) ʌp]

美 [skwer ʌp]

勇敢面对（问题、人或形势）

经济

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 勇敢面对(问题、人或形势)
  If yousquare up toa problem, person, or situation, you accept that you have to deal with them and take action to do so.
  1. The world's most prestigious insurance company was last night squaring up to take on MPs who have accused it of being riddled with corruption.
     世界上最负盛名的保险公司昨晚作出回应，要和那些指责其腐败泛滥的议员们较量一番。
  2. ...a woman facing serious responsibility, squaring up to the deepest crisis she has yet had to face.
     这个女人面对着重大的责任，勇敢地应对她所遇到的这场最严重的危机

英英释义

verb

• make square
  1. Square the circle
  2. square the wood with a file
  Synonym:square
• settle conclusively
  1. We finally settled the argument
  Synonym:settlesquare offdetermine
• even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing
  Synonym:jogeven up

双语例句

• It was brave of him to square up to that big man who threatened to attack him.
  面对那个威胁要打他的大个子，他敢于迎战，真是勇敢。
• Who'll square up the damage he has done?
  谁将赔偿他所造成的损失？
• Give me a minute to square up, and I'll meet you outside the hotel.
  请稍等我一会儿，我先把账结了，然后在旅馆外见。
• Let's square up, how much is the bill?
  我们把帐结清吧，帐单上是多少钱？
• Please square up and come back at once. To settle ( an account, for example) by paying what is owed.
  结清帐目请立即回来。使帐目平衡以支付所欠款来结算（例如，帐目）
• Can I leave you to square up with the waiter?
  我把跟服务员结帐的事交给你办行吗？
• Please square up and come back at once.
  结清帐目请立即回来。
• Dalian is going through the'Greenness Storm'and thus Star Sea Square is set up in the land of garbage;
  大连刮起了“绿色风暴”，使垃圾场上崛起了星海广场；
• List methods are convenient for these types of manipulations, but a side-effect of my algorithm is a duplicate entry when a whole-number square root pops up.
  List方法对于这些类型操作很方便，但我的算法有个副作用，就是出现整数平方根时，会有重复。
• The occurrence of red tides hit an accumulative area of13,738 square kilometers, up by18.3 percent.
  全年累计发生赤潮面积13738平方公里，增加18.3%。