brace
发音
英 [breɪs]
美 [breɪs]
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- vt.
- 支撑
- 系紧
- 准备,预备
- 振作起来
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- vi.
- 准备好
- 支持
- 打起精神
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- n.
- 支持物
- 铁钳,夹子
- [语]大括号
- 绷紧(身体部位的)肌肉
单词词源
brace 箍子,大括号
来自拉丁词bracchia, 手臂。词源同brief, 短的。原指两手合抱,表支持义,后指箍子,括号等。
双语例句
- 1. Manufacturers had better brace for higher settlements and slimmer margins .
- 制造商应做好准备,迎接更高的薪资要求和更低的利润率。
- 2. Countries with soldiers deployed in afghanistan brace themselves for revenge attacks on their troops .
- 在伊拉克驻扎军队的国家已做好准备,应对报复性攻击。
- 3. If that advice is followed , mr bernanke should brace for more downward revisions .
- 如果那项建议被采纳,bernanke先生应该为更多的削减计划做好准备。
- 4. He urged them to brace for competition by working out what they were good at , what they should not do and what their values were .
- 他敦促日本人要为竞争做好准备,你们擅长什么,你们要回避什么,还有你们的价值观是什么。
- 5. Buy-out firms should brace themselves for fierce competition from trade buyers in asia and work harder to combat the negative , " blood-sucking " publicity surrounding their industry , according to a senior executive from oaktree capital management .
- 橡树资本管理(oaktreecapitalmanagement)高管威廉凯林斯(williamkerins)表示,收购企业应做好准备,应对来自亚洲商业买家的激烈竞争,并付出更大的努力,改变该行业负面的“吸血”形象。
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