1. We have to shore up the damaged fence.
    我们得用支柱撑住暗了的篱笆。

1. We walked along the seashore.
    我们沿着海岸走。

2. The sailor was held up while he was on shore.
    那个水手在岸上遭到抢劫。

1. 海岸：大海是每个孩子都向往的地方,如果带着孩子到海边旅行,踩着软绵绵的沙滩,看着一望无际的海岸(shore),恰巧捡到一只海螺(shell),把它放到孩子的耳旁(ear),孩子就能听到甜美(sweet)清亮(clear)的海洋之声(a sea song).

1. 海岸;河岸;湖滨
    The shores or the shore of a sea, lake, or wide river is the land along the edge of it. Someone who is on shore is on the land rather than on a ship.

    e.g. They walked down to the shore.
           他们走到了湖边。
    e.g. ...elephants living on the shores of Lake Kariba...
           生活在卡里巴湖滨的大象

2. (国家或大洲的)区域，境内
    When someone or something reaches the shores of a country or continent, they arrive in that country or continent.

    e.g. It is feared that a similar epidemic will soon reach the shores of Europe...
           人们担心类似的流行病很快会传到欧洲。
    e.g. This youngster is another destined to leave these shores.
           这个年轻人是又一个注定要离开这个国家的人。

相关词组：shore up

1. a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support

    Synonym: shoring

2. the land along the edge of a body of water

1. support by placing against something solid or rigid

    e.g. shore and buttress an old building

    Synonym: prop uppropshore up

2. arrive on shore

    e.g. The ship landed in Pearl Harbor

    Synonym: landset ashore

3. serve as a shore to

    e.g. The river was shored by trees