square up

英 [skweə(r) ʌp]

美 [skwer ʌp]

勇敢面对（问题、人或形势）

经济

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 勇敢面对(问题、人或形势)
  If yousquare up toa problem, person, or situation, you accept that you have to deal with them and take action to do so.
  1. The world's most prestigious insurance company was last night squaring up to take on MPs who have accused it of being riddled with corruption.
     世界上最负盛名的保险公司昨晚作出回应，要和那些指责其腐败泛滥的议员们较量一番。
  2. ...a woman facing serious responsibility, squaring up to the deepest crisis she has yet had to face.
     这个女人面对着重大的责任，勇敢地应对她所遇到的这场最严重的危机

英英释义

verb

• make square
  1. Square the circle
  2. square the wood with a file
  Synonym:square
• settle conclusively
  1. We finally settled the argument
  Synonym:settlesquare offdetermine
• even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing
  Synonym:jogeven up

双语例句

• The world's most prestigious insurance company was last night squaring up to take on MPs who have accused it of being riddled with corruption.
  世界上最负盛名的保险公司昨晚作出回应，要和那些指责其腐败泛滥的议员们较量一番。
• It was brave of him to square up to that big man who threatened to attack him.
  面对那个威胁要打他的大个子，他敢于迎战，真是勇敢。
• I'll square the damage up in ten days.
  10天内我把损失付清。
• Are you going to square up with the waiter?
  你打算去跟服务员结帐吗？
• Square Shoulders: The shoulders should square up to the fall line.
  平肩：肩膀要保持对滚落线平直。
• I can square up to the responsibilities for my poor family now.
  现在我能够勇敢地正视我对我的穷家所担负的责任。
• Slowly, silently, a black square creeps up the pole and flutters chill against the morning sky.
  一面黑色的方旗缓缓无声地爬上了旗杆，在早晨的天空中冷飕飕地颤抖。
• Go to about the appearance at6:00, I turned to square up, wish, still see ocean.
  到了大约6点的样子，我转到了广场上，心想着，还是去看看大海。
• Let's square up, how much is the bill?
  我们把帐结清吧，帐单上是多少钱？
• List methods are convenient for these types of manipulations, but a side-effect of my algorithm is a duplicate entry when a whole-number square root pops up.
  List方法对于这些类型操作很方便，但我的算法有个副作用，就是出现整数平方根时，会有重复。