英语释义

1. a long pillow or cushion

2. a structural part designed to eliminate friction or provide support or bearing (see bearing sense 5)

3. to support with or as if with a bolster reinforce
lay bolstered up in bed extra men will bolster already augmented dock details
— Stanley Levey

4. to give a boost to
news that bolstered his spirits

5. a long bag of cloth completely filled with soft material a long pillow or cushion

6. to make (something) stronger or better to give support to (something)

7. a long pillow or cushion sometimes used to support bed pillows

8. to support with or as if with a bolster
We tried to bolster their courage.

9. to use evidence usually improperly to give weight to (evidence already introduced)

片语

Bolstering Blood支持之血

Bolstering American支撑美国

bolstering g STEM participation加强STEM学科参与

bolster up援助，支持

Bolstering Voice激励

bolstering college applications有助于申请大学

Bolstering Armband援助臂章

bolster plate护索板；支承板；[机] 压床垫板

bolstering the instruction加强指导

英汉例句

• Facing down such opposition would make full-throttle privatisation even more potent as a way of bolstering confidence.

  面对这些反对派，使得私有化过程加足马力，在增强市场信心过程中越发强大。

• APIs sharpen the focus in SOA, meeting business goals and bolstering enterprise strategies.

  APIs聚焦了SOA中的关注点：满足业务目标和支持企业战略。

• A team of neuroscientists performed the research with the objective of bolstering the understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related afflictions.

  这项研究由一组神经科学家实施，目的在于支持对创伤后应激障碍综合癥(PTSD)以及相关病癥的理解。

• These included bolstering testing in certain areas, increasing interoperability testing with other products, stress testing simulations, and tactical Fix Packs for 6.5.2 and 6.5.3.

  包括对特定区域的支持测试，增加与其他产品的互操作性测试，压力测试模拟以及6.5.2和6.5.3的补丁包。

• There is a limit to how much you can control your job security. So bolstering your cash may be your best bet for boosting your morale.

  你如何掌控你的职业安全是有限度的，所以能让你斗志高涨的最好办法就是支持现金。

• Japanese companies may benefit from the yen「s surge to a 15-year high, bolstering their buying power, according to a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. report on Aug. 28.

  据8月28日一篇高盛集团有限公司的报道，日本可能从日元15年来最大的升值中获益，因为这增强了他们的购买力。

• At some job clubs, the emphasis is not on emotional bolstering but on the nuts and bolts of securing work.

  有些就业俱乐部不以情感支持为主，而是把重点放在具体的事情上。

• Those are the essential fats that, along with bolstering the cognitive powers of your brain, concentrate in the walls of your epidermal cells to help lock in moisture.

  这些都是必要的脂肪，可以增强你的大脑认知，集中在你表皮细胞上，帮助锁住水分。

• Routine immunization services have been strengthened by bolstering the cold chain, transport and communications systems for immunization.

  通过支持免疫接种冷链系统、运输和通讯系统，加强了常规免疫接种服务。

• A recent internal report argued that it should quickly involve itself in bolstering the government in NWFP and the tribal areas, to avert grave instability.

  一项最新的内部报告认为，联合国应尽快采取措施，支持西北部边境省份政府和种族地区，扭转严重的不稳定局面。

• That means redoubling existing efforts in each of the three traditional areas of policy: bolstering Banks; providing greater fiscal stimulus; and cutting interest rates.

  这意味着要在以下三项传统政策领域加倍努力：支持银行、更大力度的财政刺激、降息。

• Most of it has been squandered on vote-seeking tax cuts, he calculates, not on bolstering the economy」s growth prospects.

  如他所计算的，大部分被浪费在政府为获选民支持而减税上，而不是在支撑经济的长期增长上。

• Approval of the sale would also mark a significant change of tack by Israel, which has often swayed American politicians against bolstering Arab arsenals.

  这个军售案的批準也将标志着一个明显的变化-以色列的转向，以色列在过去经常指使美国政客反对那些支持对阿拉伯国家军售的军火商。

• Growth in China「s jewellery market played a vital part in bolstering demand for both metals last year -and investor demand played a crucial role for price developments.

  中国珠宝市场的增长，去年对支撑两种金属的需求发挥了重要作用，而且投资者需求对价格走势起到了关键作用。

• Facebook will likely require users to pay with the internal Facebook currency it calls Credits, bolstering that product」s usefulness.

  FACEBOOK可能要求用户支付FACEBOOK内的货币「信用值」来支撑该产品的实用性。

• Two thousand troops from Guinea and Djibouti are to be made 「immediately」 available, bolstering the 6,000 or so from Uganda and Burundi already defending Somalia「s battered capital, Mogadishu.

  几内亚和吉布提的两千余名官兵将「立即」投入战斗，支持来自乌干达和布隆迪的六千余名官兵，在索马里首都摩加迪沙进行防卫任务。

• In support of Western policy aimed at bolstering Fatah and at forcing Hamas to recognise Israel and renounce violence, Egypt has joined with Israel to enforce its blockade on Gaza.

  西方的计划是支持法塔赫，迫使哈马斯承认以色列和宣布放弃暴力对抗行动，埃及为支持西方的这项政策而加入到以色列对加沙的封锁行动中。

• They say some bacteria are necessary for bolstering our immune systems, and without them our bodies over-react to dust and pollen, resulting in an allergy.

  某些细菌对增强人体免疫力至关重要。没有细菌，我们会对灰尘、花粉极度敏感，产生过敏现象。

• Booms and bust will not disappear; hence the crucial importance of bolstering capital, the buffer that Banks depend on to absorb losses.

  繁荣和衰退将不是消失。因此支持资本的至关重要，缓沖器是银行消化损失的能力。

• He quickly declared himself winner, with an unofficial 63% of the votes, bolstering his plans to improve the lot of Bolivia」s indigenous people under his socialist banner.

  他很快宣布自己是胜利者，拿下非官方统计的六成三选票，支持他的计划在社会主义旗帜下改善全体玻利维亚原住民。

• They are, at last, focusing on the right priorities: building a firewall around illiquid but solvent countries like Italy; bolstering Europe's Banks; and dealing far more decisively with Greece.

  最终他们集中研究了正确的优先事情：在无资金流的周围建一道隔离墻但有偿还能力的国家除外(如意大利)；支持欧洲银行；更加果断地和希腊一起采取行动。

• Nitrogen has been found in a meteorite that smashed into Antarctica, bolstering the theory that life on Earth came from outer space.

  地球上的生命来自外太空，支持它的理论是撞上南极洲的陨石中发现了氮。

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