| 词汇 | bolstering |
| 释义 | bolstering present participle ofbolster bolster verb[ T ] uk /ˈbəʊl.stər/ us /ˈboʊl.stɚ/ to support or improve something or make it stronger: 支撑;加固;提高;改善 More money is needed to bolster the industry.需要更多的钱来扶持该产业。 She tried to bolster my confidence/morale(= encourage me and make me feel stronger) by telling me that I had a special talent.她说我有特别的才能，想要增强我的信心。 They need to do something to bolster their image.他们需要设法改善他们的形象。 Physical supports and supporting abutment bearing bolster bookend bracket burden buttress groan load-bearing modillion pier pile pillar prop prop something up rafter sinew underpin unsupported weight-bearing You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming and making stronger Examples of bolsteringbolstering In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. As relativity was destroying the notion of determinacy in physical studies, genetics was bolstering it within biology. A discipline's understanding of its past can be a legend bolstering today's priorities. The cultural task of selling had much more to do with entrenching hierarchies, reinforcing hegemonic assumptions, and bolstering expectations of coherence. The cycle is performed without interruption, bolstering the impression of it being 24 different perspectives on a single song. Its sole purpose appears to be that of bolstering presidential resources. Unlike unelected chief executives, presidents may agree to decentralise as a means of bolstering their electoral support among groups who favour decentralisation. However, it also colludes in pre-dating their togetherness as a group, paradoxically also bolstering their authenticity in more traditional terms. Gestural transfer could serve the same role, that is, a strategy for effective communication, particularly in bolstering the communication when language proficiency is weak. It is therefore a means of maintaining ethnic exclusivity from religious others as well as one of bolstering uniformity in a context where piety itself is taking many contested forms. Nevertheless, having two extra physicians affirm capacity was preferred by this court as a support of self-determination, especially when compared to bolstering patient rights through guardianship or other judicial review. An empirical question is whether some threshold level of syntactic and narrative proficiency is necessary for the reciprocal bolstering of reading and language development to occur. There were therefore positive repercussions in allowing banks access to global finance, in turn, bolstering the flow of credit to the real economy. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English You propose continuing down the same track, bolstering up the same policy, ever more generously financing the same actions. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English On the one hand, therefore, we have a major interest in cultural diversity, bolstering creative people and easy access to creative content online. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English In practice, they are bolstering the sheiks and sultans, and a federation of this kind will never work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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