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.- 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 democracies of the West may find it hard to shore up their defences.
英英释义
verb
- support by placing against something solid or rigid
- shore and buttress an old building
双语例句
- 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 that left flank and keep firing!
支援左翼，保持火力！ - And by bringing down the foreclosure rate, it will help to shore up housing prices for everyone.
在降低失赎权比例的同时，它将有助于为大家支撑房屋价格。 - They tried to shore up the failing economy by means of tax increases.
他们企图藉由增加税收的办法来支撑起日益衰落的经济。