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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Shore up the side of an old house to stop it falling down.
支撑旧屋墙壁以防倒塌。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。