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

• 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。
• Shore up the side of an old house to stop it falling down.
  支撑旧屋墙壁以防倒塌。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The government used subsidies to shore up farm prices.
  政府利用津贴去支撑起农产品价格。
• 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。
• Investors were hoping the report would prompt Washington to take broader steps to shore up the economy.
  投资者希望这份报告会促进华盛顿采取更广泛的措施来支撑经济。
• 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。
• Government interventions to shore up the housing market add an extra element of unpredictability.
  政府支撑房地产市场的干预行动则为其增添了额外的不可预知性。