undergird

过去分词：

动词过去分词: undergirded/undergirt

更多词形：

动词过去式: undergirded/undergirt | 动词过去分词: undergirded/undergirt | 动词现在分词: undergirding | 动词第三人称单数: undergirds |

单词例句：

After hoisting it up, they used supports to undergird the ship.Then, fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the gear, and thus they were driven along.

既然把小船拉上来，就用缆索捆绑船底，又恐怕在赛耳底沙滩上搁了浅，就落下篷来，任船飘去。

The distinctives of Reformed theology and practice are useful only to the degree that they undergird and clarify the gospel, the evangel.

改革宗神学与实践的特点是很有用的，但也只在一个程度上，即加强并澄清福音与福音要点。

To undergird this system, the Bretton Woods architects created the International Monetary Fund, which was far more central to their ambitions than their other legacy, the World Bank.

在过去差不多五年的时间里，制度上的不统一制造了上世纪30年代的一个翻版：作为让本币钉住美元的最大经济体，中国将人民币汇率保持于低位，致使亚洲其他出口国也纷纷压低汇价。

Over the course of the campaign against Hillary Clinton and now McCain, Obama has elaborated more and more the ideas that would undergird his foreign policy as president.

美国政治家始终致力于将这两者结合起来，这也是理所当然的。一个不切实际的外交政策肯定会失败，一个缺乏理想的外交政策又非美国所求。

After lifting it aboard, they used cables to undergird the hull, and since we feared running aground on the sands of Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor. So we continued to be dragged along.

水手们把小艇拉上来，用缆索把船绑好、又怕撞在叙尔提浅滩上，便落下船具，这样任船飘荡。

It is our brains that are responsible for the complex social organization and the accumulation of technical, economic and scientific advances that, for better and worse, undergird modern civilization.

正是我们的大脑才出现了复杂的社会组织、技术、经济、科学进步的积累不管怎么说，都是这些才奠定了当代文明。

We took measures to undergird the ship.

我们采取措施将船的底部加固。

undergird

vt. 从底层加固, 加强

Procedural justice and fairness are crucial to democracy-they undergird healthy party competition and help ensure citizens' faith in a democratic system.

由于民主政治讲求的是程序的公平与正当性，程序的公平与正当对于政党竞争有良性影响，更让民众对民主体制更具信心。