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

• 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 government used subsidies to shore up farm prices.
  政府利用津贴去支撑起农产品价格。
• Policymakers hope the move will shore up confidence and help shock the credit markets back to life.
  政策制定者希望，这项举措将提振市场信心，并使信贷市场恢复生机。
• 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。
• And by bringing down the foreclosure rate, it will help to shore up housing prices for everyone.
  在降低失赎权比例的同时，它将有助于为大家支撑房屋价格。
• But this was partly to shore up support for the North American Free-Trade Agreement.
  但是这在一定程度上扶持了它对北美自由贸易协定的支持。
• Shore up that left flank and keep firing!
  支援左翼，保持火力！
• 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。
• 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。
• All of China's largest banks have announced plans in the past month to raise fresh capital to shore up their balance sheets after an unprecedented credit binge last year.
  过去一个月里，中国这些最大型银行全都宣布了筹集新资本以充实自身资产负债表的计划。去年，中国出现了前所未有的信贷狂潮。