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。
• All of China's largest banks have announced plans in the past month to raise fresh capital to shore up their balance sheets after an unprecedented credit binge last year.
  过去一个月里，中国这些最大型银行全都宣布了筹集新资本以充实自身资产负债表的计划。去年，中国出现了前所未有的信贷狂潮。
• Clever, skilled employees require less management, constantly teach you new things, and shore up your weaknesses.
  聪明、技能熟练的员工无需太多管理，还可以教给你新的技能，甚至可以弥补你的缺点。
• It may even shore up growth and lighten the public debt burden.
  这种投资甚至有可能支撑经济增长，减轻公共债务负担。
• 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。
• Our most urgent task upon taking office was to shore up the same banks that helped cause this crisis.
  在我上任之初，最迫切的任务就是支撑那些引起危机的银行免于倒闭。
• Swift action is needed on the part of eurozone members to shore up confidence in its crippled banking sector.
  欧元区成员国必须迅速采取行动，提振投资者对处境维艰的欧洲银行业的信心。
• 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。
• But that does not mean the regime is altogether deaf to the need to shore up its international position.
  但这并不意味着伊朗现政权完全没有意识到提振本国国际声望的必要性。
• Shore up the side of an old house to stop it falling down.
  支撑旧屋墙壁以防倒塌。