firm up

英 [fɜːm ʌp]

美 [fɜːrm ʌp]

（使）更坚固; （使）更坚实; （使）更明确; 强化; （使）确切; 使（价格、价值等）保持坚挺（或稳定）

英英释义

verb

• arrange firmly
  1. firm up one's plans

双语例句

• EXAMPLE: After several discussions, the rival companies have finally agreed to merge and plan to firm up the deal at a meeting next week.
  在几次讨论之后，曾经互为对手的公司最终同意合并，并计划在下周开会时落实这笔交易。
• An agency that arranges personal travel. firm up one's plans.
  安排个人旅行的代理处。
• All right, I'll rearrange the production schedule. firm up one's plans.
  妥善安排一个人的计划。
• I'll return to Shanghai tomorrow, if I can firm up my air ticket.
  如果我能把飞机票定下来的话，我打算明天回上海。
• Running is a good way to firm up your leg muscles.
  跑步是使你腿部肌肉变结实的好方法。
• Effective measures should be taken to firm up the prices.
  应该采取有效措施稳定物价。
• "But they say if they try to stop him, it will only firm up his resolve," says an NBA source.
  “但他们说，如果试图阻止他，只能坚定他的决心，”一位NBA的人士如是说。
• They lost a number of planes; the count takes a day or so to firm up.
  他们损失了若干飞机，具体数字要一，两天才能证实。
• Astronomers won't have to wait that long to firm up their understanding of the outer solar system, though: Sicardy and his team already have occultations in hand from other Kuiper Belt objects.
  但天文学家们不必等那久来证实他们对太阳系外层的理解。斯卡德和他的团队已经掌握了其它柯伊伯带星体的掩星。
• This time of year, as department heads firm up their budgets for 2012, is the right moment to negotiate a pay hike.
  在这个时候，部门经理要开始制订2012年的预算，这正是一个要求提高薪水的好时机。