brace

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  • vt.
    支撑
    系紧
    准备,预备
    振作起来
  • vi.
    准备好
    支持
    打起精神
  • 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。

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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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