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You and I have spent our whole lifetime... You don't give a shit about those men. You needed the bombing to shore up the election, to prop up your weakness in the ranks.
你和我都为此奋斗一生了……你根本不在乎他们。你要利用这场爆炸袭击事件赢得选民的支持，巩固地位。
《The Foreigner》《英伦对决》
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All right, we have 48 hours. I have to work Colorado and shore up Tennessee. But Maine, Wisconsin and New hampshire must be turned by any means necessary.
好吧，我们有48小时。我得攻下科罗拉多，稳住田纳西。哪怕采取一切必要手段，也要让缅因，威斯康星和新罕布什尔回心转意。
《House of Cards Season 5》《纸牌屋 第五季》
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To that point, it occurs to me that we might have an opportunity to finally snare Best Group Costume if we shore up our weak link, which is clearly Leonard as Superman.
你这么一提，让我忽然想起来我们今年很有可能最终赢得最佳团体服饰奖，只要我们加强了当初的短板，显然也就是莱纳德扮的超人。
《The Big Bang Theory Season 4》《生活大爆炸 第四季》
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shore up confidence
提振市场信心
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The democracies of the West may find it hard to shore up their defences.
西方的民主国家可能发现很难加固自己的防御。
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Fiscal stimulus has helped shore up aggregate demand.
财政刺激政策帮助支撑了总需求。
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taking advantage of a respite in the financial crisis to shore up the dollar
正在利用金融危机中的片刻喘息来挽救疲软的美元
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But this was partly to shore up support for the North American Free-Trade Agreement.
但是这在一定程度上巩固了它对北美自由贸易协定的支持。
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A more immediate concern for the first-round winners was to shore up their legitimacy.
对于这两个首轮大选胜者来说，比起上面所谈的问题，他们眼前的顾虑则是要树立自己的合法性。