boost
US:/bust/
UK:/buːst/
n.:
提高；增长；帮助；激励
v.:
使增长；使兴旺；偷窃
网络:
促进；增加；升压
Word forms: (第三人称单数) boosts (现在分词) boosting (过去式) boosted
Examples
1.
First to help small beauty changed clothes, then boost to the streets to see whether you can achieve everything?
要先帮小美女换上衣服，然后到街头上去购物，看你是否能满载而归呢？
2.
If they were to spend some of that cash on expanding their businesses or rewarding shareholders, it could boost stocks, analysts say.
分析师称，如果这些公司把这些钱花掉一些来扩大业务或者回报股东，它们的股票或将受到提振。
3.
But if you boost the variety of fruits and vegetables that you eat, you may be able to lower those odds a bit.
但如果你食用种类丰富的蔬果，可能患癌风险能稍微降低。
4.
Of course, if you'd really like a boost, dab a bit of grapefruit juice behind your ear lobes.
当然，如果你实在想锦上添花，那么就在耳垂背后擦上几滴葡萄汁吧。
5.
Purposely impressing people is an act that brings nothing but a momentary ego boost.
刻意地让所有人记住你只是一种暂时的自我宣传行为，但这并不会为你带来任何好处。
6.
Shaun Woodward, Northern Ireland secretary, said the Bombardier investment was "a major boost to the economy of Northern Ireland" .
北爱尔兰事务大臣肖恩-伍德沃德（ShaunWoodward）表示，庞巴迪投资是“对北爱尔兰经济的一次重大推进”。
7.
It could further depress China's falling growth rate just as Beijing is rolling out a multibillion-dollar plan to boost consumer spending.
这也将使中国一直下降的增长率雪上加霜，虽然同时北京已经出台了一项数亿元的计划以刺激消费。
8.
Bush said the economy needs a boost now to lift it on to a more vigorous growth path and urged quick action.
布什总统则称需要改善经济以使之步入更有活力的发展道路，他催促国会尽快拿出行动来。
9.
But the US buy-out group said the new environment could help boost returns over the long term.
不过，这家美国收购集团表示，就长期而言，新环境可能有助于提高回报。
10.
For a real confidence boost, try it out on the most devoted, and least critical, family member: your pet, as long as it isn't a parrot.
要想真的使自信心大增，练习对象不妨为对你最忠心耿耿、从不横挑鼻子竖挑眼的家庭成员--你养的宠物，只要不是鹦鹉就行。