buoy up

1. Several price indices point to stabilising house values, which should buoy up property-tax revenues and education budgets.
   一些价格指数显示房价会更加稳定，这也保证了丰厚的地产税收和教育预算。
2. Thou art crushed under this seven years 'weight of misery, replied Hester, fervently resolved to buoy him up with her own energy.
   你已经给这长达七年的不幸的重荷压垮了，海丝特应着，热心地用自己的精力给他鼓劲。
3. They are amongst the unsung heroes of this war, and everything possible to lighten their tedium and buoy up their morale should be done.
   彼辈亦属此次战争中无名英雄之列。凡足减轻其烦闷，振奋其精神之一切可能措施均应一一采取。
4. And put the line down into the water. a small float used on a fishing line or net to buoy up the line or net or to indicate when a fish bites.
   钓鱼线或鱼网上的小鱼漂，使线或网浮在水面上或用于显示鱼上钩。
5. Because we had some hedge funds that came, which helped to buoy up the market.
   因为我们有一些对冲基金来了，这有助于提振市场。
6. The cut in bank rate is expected to buoy up the economy.
   银行利率的降低可望振兴经济。
7. But we must buoy up, is enduring the tribulation, goes forward unceasingly.
   但我们必须重新振作起来，忍受着磨难，不断前进。
8. He did his best to buoy her up.
   他竭力使她振作起来。
9. He seized a piece of wreckage; this would buoy him up till rescue came.
   他抓住一块破船板；这可以使他在遇救前不致沉没。
10. Then you have some secret hope to buoy you up and please you with whispers of the future.
    那么，你一定有什么秘密的希望在支持你，在低声预言未来使你高兴。
11. Lacking of dense and solid GPS observation platforms at sea, there is only a buoy or ship as a carrier where the GPS receivers are set up.
    海上缺乏密集、稳固的GPS安装平台，只能以海洋浮标或航行船舶为载体。

verb

1. become more cheerful
   1. after a glass of wine, he lightened up a bit

   Synonym:    lightenlighten up

2. keep afloat
   1. The life vest buoyed him up

   Synonym:    buoy

3. make more cheerful
   1. the conversation lightened me up a bit

   Synonym:    lightenlighten up