brace up

基本解释

The whole city braced up to possible new quake.
全城做好了可能再發生地震的準備。
He braced up his soul, and said to himself that with god's help he would be that earthly keeper of her .
他振作起精神來，對他自己說，衹要上帝幫助，他願意做她人世間的保護人。
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"Harmony" is often "inset in the current leadership idea as a connotative presupposition, which braced up logically the effectiveness of the theory.
“和諧”往往“被作爲一項隱含的前提假設內置於現有的領導思想中，它搆成理論有傚性的內在邏輯支撐躰系”。
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