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

• 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%。
• Are you going to square up with the waiter?
  你打算去跟服务员结帐吗？
• Slowly, silently, a black square creeps up the pole and flutters chill against the morning sky.
  一面黑色的方旗缓缓无声地爬上了旗杆，在早晨的天空中冷飕飕地颤抖。
• Please square up and come back at once.
  结清帐目请立即回来。
• 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 composition features: the round and square structure makes up the wall restrictions;
  其构图特点有：圆和方的构图弥补了墙体的限制；
• The set square is moved up and down when drawing parallel lines, and the set square and the ruler can be independently used.
  在画平行线的时候，只需将三角板上下移动即可，还可将三角板和直尺分开单独使用。
• 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。
• Can I leave you to square up with the waiter? As a result the office force has been considerably shaken up.
  我把跟服务员结帐的事交给你办行吗？结果对办事人员进行了相当大的改组。
• 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。