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

• Catch the basketball behind the three-point line and square up to the basket in the triple threat position.
  持球站在三分线外，面向篮筐，摆好三重威胁姿势。
• Look. I'll square it up with him tomorrow.
  好了，我明天会和他解释清楚的。
• Can I leave you to square up with the waiter? As a result the office force has been considerably shaken up.
  我把跟服务员结帐的事交给你办行吗？结果对办事人员进行了相当大的改组。
• 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。
• 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%。
• Can I leave you to square up with the waiter?
  我把跟服务员结帐的事交给你办行吗？
• 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；
• 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。
• 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）
• Are you going to square up with the waiter?
  你打算去跟服务员结帐吗？