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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Second, it has to shore up Europes banks to ensure they can withstand a sovereign default.
其次，大力支持欧元区银行，确保他们经受住主权债务违约危机。 - Over the next few years we will also have continued profits from our normal operations and increased profit from Wing Hang Bank as well, he added. Our retained earnings will also build up, which will shore up our capital base.
未来几年中我们还将继续通过我们的正常业务盈利，并通过永亨银行获得更多利润。他补充说，我们的留存收益也将增加，从而会扩充我们的资本金基础。 - 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。 - Shore up that left flank and keep firing!
支援左翼，保持火力！ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。