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shoring

/shawr-ing, shohr-/US // ˈʃɔr ɪŋ, ˈʃoʊr- //

支架,支撑物,支撑,支撑架

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a number or system of shores for steadying or supporting a wall, a ship in drydock, etc.
    • : the act of setting up shores.

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Examples

  • The GOP will give itself credibility by shoring up the program that works and seriously attempting to fix the one that doesn't.

  • Analysts say a more aggressive American approach to shoring up the opposition leadership may now be underway.

  • The Brown campaign, early on, focused a significant deal of attention to shoring up their support in the Jewish community.

  • The ex-governor has done an excellent job shoring up his conservative bona fides in Florida.

  • Why, then, is he focusing so intently upon stabilizing Afghanistan instead of shoring up Islamabad first and foremost?

  • MacNutt divided them into gangs and set them to work staying and shoring the remnants of the dam.

  • It is a low-grade ore, I should say, and tunnelling and shoring would eat it up.

  • The overhead girders "B" were then put in place, and two of the girders "C" were used as temporary shoring girders at each column.

  • This having been done, the temporary shoring girders were moved south to the next column, where the process was repeated.

  • After this had been done to their satisfaction, they removed the shoring pillar and used the wax elsewhere.