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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - We have to find something to shore up the sagging floors, otherwise it would soon fall down.
我们必须找些东西去支撑那日益下降的楼板，否则很快它们就会塌落下来。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Clever, skilled employees require less management, constantly teach you new things, and shore up your weaknesses.
聪明、技能熟练的员工无需太多管理，还可以教给你新的技能，甚至可以弥补你的缺点。 - 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。