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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The EBA had given those banks until April 2012 to implement plans to shore up their capital buffers.
  eba要求这些银行在2012年4月前采取行动增加资本缓冲。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Shore up the side of an old house to stop it falling down.
  支撑旧屋墙壁以防倒塌。
• 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。