buoy
verb /bɔɪ/
/ˈbuːi/, /bɔɪ/
[usually passive]- buoy somebody (up) to make somebody feel cheerful or confident鼓舞；鼓励
- Buoyed by their win yesterday the team feel confident of further success.在昨天的胜利鼓舞下，该队有信心再次获胜。
- Knowing that all her friends were there buoyed up her spirits.知道她所有的朋友都在那里使她精神振奋。
- buoy somebody/something (up) to keep somebody/something floating on water使漂浮；使浮起
- The raft was buoyed (up) by empty petrol cans.木筏被空汽油桶浮起。
- buoy something (up) to keep prices at a high or acceptable level使（价格）上浮；使（价格）维持于较高水平
- Trading on Wall Street was buoyed in part by rising bond prices.华尔街的交易部分受到债券价格上涨的提振。
词源Middle English: probably from Middle Dutch boye, boeie, from a Germanic base meaning ‘signal’. The verb is from Spanish boyar ‘to float’, from boya ‘buoy’.