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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 government used subsidies to shore up farm prices.
  政府利用津贴去支撑起农产品价格。
• Shore up that left flank and keep firing!
  支援左翼，保持火力！
• 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。
• 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。
• On Sunday China cut benchmark interest rates for the third time in six months to shore up flagging activity.
  上周日，中国在六个月内第三次下调基准利率，以提振疲弱的经济活动。