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

• We've got to shore up our budget, and bring down our deficits.
  我们需要削减我们的预算，将我们的赤字降下来。
• 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。
• Shore up that left flank and keep firing!
  支援左翼，保持火力！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Russians have also intervened to shore up the rouble.
  俄罗斯还曾入市干预，以提振卢布。
• The government used subsidies to shore up farm prices.
  政府利用津贴去支撑起农产品价格。