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

• 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。
• 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。
• Shore up that left flank and keep firing!
  支援左翼，保持火力！
• The government used subsidies to shore up farm prices.
  政府利用津贴去支撑起农产品价格。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• In Shanghai, government moves to shore up the markets continued to boost confidence.
  在上海，政府的托市举措仍在激励着投资者的信心。
• It has also stopped the authorities raising cash to shore up China's underfunded national pension scheme.
  产权市场的不发达还限制官方增发现金支持资金不足的国家养老金计划。
• 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。