【buttress】 - SAT备考词汇

buttress

UK:  ['bʌtrəs]

US:  ['bʌtrəs]

复数：buttresses  过去分词：buttressed  现在分词：buttressing  

v.

1.用扶壁支衬[支撑、加固]

2.支持,给…以支持

n.

1.支持物,支持人,后台老板

2.扶壁状物;山的扶壁状凸出部;(植物根部的)根肿;(马蹄后根的角质)蹄突

3.支持力量

4.前扶垛

5.扩基

6.板状根

7.靶

8.拱形结构

9.板状干基

10.【建筑】(前)扶垛,撑墙,扶壁;【矿物】支壁

1 . We have to buttress up the old church as it is beginning to lean.
我们必须加固这座古老的教堂，因为它开始倾斜了。

2 . 'All of that will buttress Japan's waning power' as it becomes a less-important economy compared with China, he said.
他说，在日本成为一个不及中国重要的经济体之际，所有这些都将加强日本日益减弱的实力。

3 . Back then, he said, China and other Asian countries lacked huge cash reserves that could buttress them in the event of recession.
他说，过去，中国和其他亚洲国家缺乏巨额现金储备以应对经济衰退。

4 . But the release of the report is expected to buttress efforts by the U. S and European countries to impose new financial sanctions on Iran.
但这份报告的发布预计会给欧美国家对伊朗实施新的金融制裁提供支持。

5 . MacDonald was able to buttress his claims with impressive studies of automobile and truck traffic conducted by state road engineers.
麦克唐纳的观点得到了政府筑路工程师所进行的大量机动车交通状况调查的肯定。