bolster是什么意思

音标:英 ['bəʊlstə(r)]美 [ˈbolstɚ]

支持, 长枕vt. 支持, 支撑

a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows
v. support and strengthen
v. prop up with a pillow or bolster

bolster的用法和例句：

1. Everything you do for yours is to bolster your broken ego.

而你做的一切都是为了 维护你病态的自尊心

2. It'll bolster the evidence we already had against him.

这样我们针对他的证据就更牢靠了

3. If anything, he could use this to bolster his standing with conservatives.

而且他还有可能利用这一点 提升保守派对他的支持

4. But I do appreciate your attempt to bolster this cockamamie story.

但是我很欣赏你 这么想把这个假故事说圆

5. That would bolster our theory that the burglaries were just for show.

这倒是能支持我们的理论 入室盗窃只是做做样子

6. Soren and the others have returned to bolster your defenses.

赛林和其他人已经回来加固您的防御

7. My family's holdings and armies can bolster your reign.

而我家族的财力和兵力正好可以支持你的统治

8. Prosecution will only use it to bolster their coconspirator theory.

公诉方只会把这当作 你俩共谋的论据

9. People give because it soothes their conscience and bolsters their reputation.

人们施舍是因为这能安抚他们的良心 还能提升他们的名声

10. If either of us was likely to bolster words with blows, it would have been my father, not me.

如果要说谁最会"言传身教" 那一定是我父亲 而不是我