buoy up 的 3 个定义
- Nautical. a distinctively shaped and marked float, sometimes carrying a signal or signals, anchored to mark a channel, anchorage, navigational hazard, etc., or to provide a mooring place away from the shore.
- a life buoy.
- to keep afloat or support by or as if by a life buoy; keep from sinking: The life jacket buoyed her up until help arrived.
- Nautical. to mark with a buoy or buoys.
- to sustain or encourage: Her courage was buoyed by the doctor's assurances.
- to float or rise by reason of lightness.
buoy up 近义词
make light, encourage
更多buoy up例句
- Pointing their phones at the area around the buoys, they’d see the digital sculptures appear.
- Waterfront landowners often express concerns that oyster farms near the shoreline — and the network of buoys and docks that may come along with them — disrupt their scenic views.
- Now, satellite-tracked buoys that simulated wayward rafts suggest that there’s little chance that the seafarers reached the isles by accident.
- Results are sent from the buoy via satellite to researchers who confirm the sounds, and match them to visual sightings from scientists and whale-watching boats in the area.
- Onboard a computer on the buoy out at sea, an automated detection algorithm harnessing the power of artificial intelligence identifies nearby vocalizing blue, humpback, and fin whales in near real-time.
- They also helped buoy Chavez's political fortunes, winning him momentum before a crucial recall vote.
- And he will buoy hopes among Democrats that Virginia is reliably purple, if not blue, in the 2016 presidential election.
- If you could launch these things from, say, a floating buoy, you could solve a lot of problems at once.
- They gave me a jolt of encouragement that is going to buoy me for the rest of my writing life.
- Bailouts, government guarantees, and the Fed's easy money policies helped buoy banks.
- The Nora lies becalmed not far from the Goodwin buoy, with her sails hanging idly on the yards.
- The buoy having been secured, an iron hook and chain of great strength were then attached to the ring in its head.
- “You see we require stronger tackle,” said the captain to Stanley, while the buoy was being slowly raised.
- He therefore gave the order to have the fresh buoy, with its chain and sinker, ready to let go.
- He had caught the life-buoy, and having managed to get it under his arms had floated about for the greater part of an hour.