Bracing的意思|Bracing的解释-里氏词典

bracing ['breisiŋ]

a. 新鲜的, 凉爽的, 爽快的, 振奋精神的

n. 联条, 支撑物, 支柱, 背带

[化] 撑条; 加强肋

A bracing tonic.
提神的补品
My daughter has to wear a brace on her teeth.
我的女儿得戴牙箍以矫正牙齿.
I love this bracing sea air!
我喜爱这种令人精神振奋的海上空气！

bracing

[ noun ]

a structural member used to stiffen a framework

<noun.artifact>

[ adj ]

imparting vitality and energy

<adj.all>

the bracing mountain air

Bracing \Bra"cing\, a.
Imparting strength or tone; strengthening; invigorating; as,
a bracing north wind.

Brace \Brace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Braced}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bracing}.]
1. To furnish with braces; to support; to prop; as, to brace
a beam in a building.

2. To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension;
to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves.

And welcome war to brace her drums. --Campbell.

3. To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.

The women of China, by bracing and binding them from
their infancy, have very little feet. --Locke.

Some who spurs had first braced on. --Sir W.
Scott.

4. To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold
firmly; as, he braced himself against the crowd.

A sturdy lance in his right hand he braced.
--Fairfax.

5. (Naut.) To move around by means of braces; as, to brace
the yards.

{To brace about} (Naut.), to turn (a yard) round for the
contrary tack.

{To brace a yard} (Naut.), to move it horizontally by means
of a brace.

{To brace in} (Naut.), to turn (a yard) by hauling in the
weather brace.

{To brace one's self}, to call up one's energies. ``He braced
himself for an effort which he was little able to make.''
--J. D. Forbes.

{To brace to} (Naut.), to turn (a yard) by checking or easing
off the lee brace, and hauling in the weather one, to
assist in tacking.

{To brace up} (Naut.), to bring (a yard) nearer the direction
of the keel by hauling in the lee brace.

{To brace up sharp} (Naut.), to turn (a yard) as far forward
as the rigging will permit.

Bracing \Bra"cing\, n.
1. The act of strengthening, supporting, or propping, with a
brace or braces; the state of being braced.

2. (Engin.) Any system of braces; braces, collectively; as,
the bracing of a truss.

Troops in Central Luzon, where the U.S. bases are located, are reported bracing for attacks against American servicemen.
It is this often pedantic and time-consuming system that is now under threat as the industry approaches the bracing world of privatisation. 'We are trying to prepare the railways for the next century', says Sir Bob Reid.
But many of the solutions - from additional water storage to desalination plants - are too far in the future to help most Californians, who are bracing for the worst if the winter of 1991 comes up dry.
Community leaders in this racially tense city are bracing for the trial of a police officer in the shooting death of a black motorcyclist that touched off riots in January.
On Friday morning, Salomon clients and customers across the U.S. government were bracing for the next disclosure.
The SFO was yesterday making no official comment on the outcome, but those inside the office were bracing themselves for another dousing in the cold water of bad publicity.
Investors are bracing for a clutch of British economic data due for release this week.
Moreover, Jones Lang Wootton is confident that neither Paris nor Lyons is likely to experience a collapse along the lines of those in London and New York. Nonetheless, the French property sector is bracing itself for a tough time over the next few years.
"There's been indiscriminate buying" and investors should be wary even though biotech stocks aren't bracing for a wholesale fall, says Anne K. Anderson, president of Atlantis Investment Co., a growth-stock research concern.
Analysts noted that sentiment in the stock market remained subdued, with most investors bracing themselves for another interest rate increase from the Federal Reserve. Not every Dow stock took a tumble.
Traders are bracing for another last-minute deluge of volume in the stock market during Friday's "triple witching hour," when stock-index futures and options and individual stock options expire simultaneously.
Now ministers fear that she will seek to upstage his victory celebration at the party conference in October by launching another tirade from the sidelines. So Mr Major is bracing himself for a rough autumn.
An Israeli military official said Thursday his troops have quelled the Palestinian uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip but now are bracing for increased terrorism by a "hard core" of Arab youths.
And both sides are bracing for a battle over issues that may seem obscure to the uninitiated.
But her album of smoldering rock tunes reached gold status (500,000 sales) when word spread of her bracing live performances.
They're bracing for the initial report Friday on first-quarter gross national product, which is expected to be at least double the 1.1% growth posted in the fourth-quarter of 1989 and perhaps as much as 3%.
Though they protest, many merchants are bracing for a flurry of sales as customers rush to put an extra case of champagne or a pair of sapphire earrings on their tab for the holidays, before the tax takes effect.
Labor, which took a battering in recent municipal elections, is bracing for its toughest-ever battle to retain control of the organization it has always dominated.
Most of the Midwest was bracing for bone-chilling cold, with highs not expected to get above -10 near the Canadian border and reaching only the 30s and 40s farther South.
MR BERNARD Attali is bracing himself for what he calls 'the mother of all battles' in the airline industry. 'We haven't seen anything yet.
Its steep and narrow valleys conceal burbling rivers, with pools for a bracing bathe that return you to the days before heated swimming pools in the garden.
Doctors are bracing for lawsuits.
It is remembered less as a bracing bath for the body politic than as a wearying excess.
Dealers were bracing themselves for bad news on the dividend front from Tarmac this morning. A senior marketmaker described the market's performance as encouraging and said it had been a session of consolidation.
Cubans are bracing for tough times, the result in part of last year's democratic upheaval in Eastern Europe and the prospect that Cuba may no longer be able to count on Soviet generosity to buttress its economy.
The 1,237 citizens of Dover in north-central Tennessee are bracing for the 20th century _ the town's first traffic light.
And yet the effect made the play not morbid but bracing. Private Lives, though in modern dress, was presented by Prowse as the brittle retreat into escapism that it indeed is.
"So for many cases, it may be unreported." Experts are bracing for a rise in the number of lymphoma cases.
Instead, the chilly weather begged a bracing and energetic outing on horseback.
Cast-iron bracing and prefabricated concrete walls will be installed just behind the machines.

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