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

• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• The Russians have also intervened to shore up the rouble.
  俄罗斯还曾入市干预，以提振卢布。
• 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。
• Shore up the side of an old house to stop it falling down.
  支撑旧屋墙壁以防倒塌。
• 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'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。
• The government used subsidies to shore up farm prices.
  政府利用津贴去支撑起农产品价格。