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

• 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。
• 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。
• Policymakers hope the move will shore up confidence and help shock the credit markets back to life.
  政策制定者希望，这项举措将提振市场信心，并使信贷市场恢复生机。
• Shore up the side of an old house to stop it falling down.
  支撑旧屋墙壁以防倒塌。
• Government interventions to shore up the housing market add an extra element of unpredictability.
  政府支撑房地产市场的干预行动则为其增添了额外的不可预知性。
• 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。
• Moves by governments and regulators around the world to shore up banking systems and financial markets risked a push towards financial protectionism, the like of which had not been seen since before the Second World War, a leading group of bankers warned yesterday.
  一个领先的银行家小组昨日警告，世界各国政府和监管机构为支撑银行体系和金融市场而采取的行动，可能导致金融保护主义，其程度之严重，可能是从二战爆发前以来所未见的。
• 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。
• Investors were hoping the report would prompt Washington to take broader steps to shore up the economy.
  投资者希望这份报告会促进华盛顿采取更广泛的措施来支撑经济。
• Shore up that left flank and keep firing!
  支援左翼，保持火力！