支持，支撑；加固

shore up───支持，支撑；加固

shored up───支持，支撑；加固

stores up───储存；积聚

chokes up───v.闷住；噎住；阻塞

holes up───躲藏；把…监禁

phones up───（给某人）打电话

scares up───张罗；凑合；把吓出来

shakes up───摇匀；重组；震动

shapes up───顺利发展；形成；成形

In all the films, Japanese populations alternately mobilize against and cower from the threats that wash up, or lumber onto, Japan's shores.───在所有的这些影片中，面对着这些步伐笨重地登临日本海岸、摧毁一切的威胁，日本人时而奋起反抗，时而畏手畏脚。

Ships, houses, cars, and human remains are expected to wash up on Hawaiian shores within a year, and on Californian shores within three years.───夏威夷海岸上的船舶、房屋、汽车以及人的遗骸将在一年内被彻底冲走，而加利福尼亚海岸上的三年内会被冲走。

The mountain town more than 2,000 miles away from the oily Gulf shores just happened to be next up on the roving panel’s calendar of randomly selected venues for its regular hearings.───这个距离采油海岸两千多英里的山城只不过凑巧成为轮转陪审团日程随机选择的审判地点。

One of those topics that's the source of many a joke, or shores up boasts around masculinity and sexual prowess.───众者择一，此话题是许多笑话段子的来源，又能支撑起某些人关于男性气概和性能力的吹嘘。

The gradualism of concession merely shores up the essentials of the established system by creating an illusion as to the possibilities of change.