stiffen

1.He tried to stiffen his wavering soldiers.

他企图动摇的士坚强起来。

2.He stiffened at her rude remarks.

他为她的无礼言词而板起面孔。

3.John stiffened his jaw so he wouldn't disgrace himself by crying.

约翰咬紧牙关，以免自己哭出来丢人现眼。

4.Threats merely stiffened his spine.

威胁只能他更加坚。

5.This paper presents an approximate analytic method for the stiffened torispherical shell with opening under uniform external pressure, that is, the equivalent spherical shell method.

提出一种外压作用下开孔加筋碟形薄壳屈曲的近似分析方法──等价球壳方法。