She braced herself to go back into the house, to reclimb the stairs and go into another bedroom.

她鼓起勇气回到屋里，爬上楼梯，走进另一间卧室。

Miss Pross braced herself for the struggle.

普罗斯小姐为这场斗争做好了准备。

Cathy braced herself to see Matthew, who she expected to arrive at any minute.

【brace】凯茜打起精神准备见马修，他随时可能到来。

Mr Main never took the exam to become a tour guide, so your correspondent braced herself to hear a torrent of errors.

Main从未参加过成为导游的考试，因此记者准备好了听到一大串错误信息。

For an awful moment she feared he was going to ask about her livestock and she braced herself for a good lie.

思嘉一时间十分惊慌，生怕他问起她的那些牲畜，于是她鼓起勇气，要找一个恰当的谎话。

She braced herself for further questions, but Susie, without interest, put down the sheet of paper and struck a match.

她准备好接受进一步的问题，但苏茜毫无兴趣地放下纸，划了一根火柴。

However, it was now too late for these lugubrious thoughts; and, bracing herself, she began to frame the new reply to Bishop Helmsdale—the plain, unvarnished tale that was to supplant the undivulging answer first written.

然而，现在这些悲哀的想法已经来不及了。打起精神，她开始构思给赫尔姆斯代尔主教的新答复——用朴实无华的故事取代最初写下的坦诚答复。

She had braced herself up many and many a time, at some sudden noise in the house; had caught up the half-dropped work, and begun to ply her needle diligently, though through dimmed spectacles, and with an unsteady hand!

屋子里突然传来一阵动静，她曾无数次振作起来。已经赶上了半途而废的工作，并开始勤奋地穿针，尽管戴着模糊的眼镜，而且手不稳！