firm up

英 [fɜːm ʌp]

美 [fɜːrm ʌp]

（使）更坚固; （使）更坚实; （使）更明确; 强化; （使）确切; 使（价格、价值等）保持坚挺（或稳定）

英英释义

verb

• arrange firmly
  1. firm up one's plans

双语例句

• I'll return to Shanghai tomorrow, if I can firm up my air ticket.
  如果我能把飞机票定下来的话，我打算明天回上海。
• Looking to the future, the Government will firm up their plans for a cleaner, greener, safer Britain
  展望未来，政府将更加明确其计划，建设一个更清洁、更环保、更安全的英国。
• Exercise will firm up your muscles.
  锻炼身体能使肌肉结实。
• Cycling is one os the best ways to firm up your thighs.
  骑脚踏车是使你的大腿变坚实最好的方法之一。
• They may also be seen from the value and business perspectives as "mini investments" that keep the software design in play while plans and estimates firm up and uncertainties decrease.
  它们还可以从价值和商业的角度被视为保持软件设计进行，同时计划和估计不断精确，不确定性减少的“迷你投资”。
• This time of year, as department heads firm up their budgets for 2012, is the right moment to negotiate a pay hike.
  在这个时候，部门经理要开始制订2012年的预算，这正是一个要求提高薪水的好时机。
• OPEC has agreed to freeze its global oil production slightly in order to firm up crude prices.
  石油输出国组织已同意对全球石油生产稍加冻结，以稳定原油价格。
• Before watering the cuttings, you have to firm up the soil.
  在给插条浇水前，你得先把泥土压实。
• "But they say if they try to stop him, it will only firm up his resolve," says an NBA source.
  “但他们说，如果试图阻止他，只能坚定他的决心，”一位NBA的人士如是说。
• They lost a number of planes; the count takes a day or so to firm up.
  他们损失了若干飞机，具体数字要一，两天才能证实。