shore up

1. PHRASAL VERB 支撑;支持;加强
   If you shore up something 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。

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。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. At the same time the intervention aims to shore up confidence among foreign investors in US dollar assets.
    干预行动的另一个目标是增强外国投资者对美元资产的信心。
12. The Russians have also intervened to shore up the rouble.
    俄罗斯还曾入市干预，以提振卢布。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. Shore up the side of an old house to stop it falling down.
    支撑旧屋墙壁以防倒塌。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. The government used subsidies to shore up farm prices.
    政府利用津贴去支撑起农产品价格。
20. In Shanghai, government moves to shore up the markets continued to boost confidence.
    在上海，政府的托市举措仍在激励着投资者的信心。
21. All month you'll need to shore up your strength, because when unexpected things happen, it'll feel like you were hit by a bus-you have to be strong enough to withstand the impact.
    整个月你需要你的力量来支撑，因为意想不到的事情发生时，它会觉得你被击中一辆巴士-你要坚强，足以承受冲击。
22. Shore up that left flank and keep firing!
    支援左翼，保持火力！
23. 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。
24. 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。
25. It has also stopped the authorities raising cash to shore up China's underfunded national pension scheme.
    产权市场的不发达还限制官方增发现金支持资金不足的国家养老金计划。
26. 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。
27. 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。
28. 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。
29. 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。
30. 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。

verb

1. support by placing against something solid or rigid
   1. shore and buttress an old building

   Synonym:    prop uppropshore