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

• Look. I'll square it up with him tomorrow.
  好了，我明天会和他解释清楚的。
• Do you want to square up now or later?
  你要现在还是等以后结清欠账？
• Square up everything whatsoever that is has been necessary to buy. Not unless you want to, but the extra premium involved will be on buyers 'account.
  该买的就买，一次付清帐。只要你需要就可以承担，不过这些附加保险费将算在买方帐上。
• 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。
• Please square up and come back at once. To settle ( an account, for example) by paying what is owed.
  结清帐目请立即回来。使帐目平衡以支付所欠款来结算（例如，帐目）
• Dalian is going through the'Greenness Storm'and thus Star Sea Square is set up in the land of garbage;
  大连刮起了“绿色风暴”，使垃圾场上崛起了星海广场；
• 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。
• The composition features: the round and square structure makes up the wall restrictions;
  其构图特点有：圆和方的构图弥补了墙体的限制；
• The occurrence of red tides hit an accumulative area of13,738 square kilometers, up by18.3 percent.
  全年累计发生赤潮面积13738平方公里，增加18.3%。
• 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。