Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.

右翼民兵正在为战斗做准备。在选举日之前的一项民意调查中，75%的美国人表达了对暴力的担忧。

China's been hammered by tariffs before and was frankly girding for this moment.

中国此前已多次遭受关税打击，坦白说，正为此刻做准备。

" Of course" ! said I, girding myself up for a fight.

“当然” ！我说，为战斗做好准备。

On June 17th Moody's, a credit-rating agency, agreed that the plan was ground-breaking, “girding the city for a tough fight with creditors of all types”.

6月17日，评级机构穆迪指出该方案为底特律与所有债权人拉了一场艰苦卓绝的斗争。

Americans are now girding themselves for the prospect of both a partisan battle over impeachment and perhaps the most fiercely contested election in recent memory.

而美国人现在也做好了准备，迎接两党在弹劾案中的最终博弈以及可能近期以来最激烈的总统大选。

Detached rocks stood upright afar, a collar of foam girding their bases, and repeating in its whiteness the plumage of a countless multitude of gulls that restlessly hovered about.

分离的岩石远远地直立着，一圈泡沫环绕着它们的底部，在它的白色中重复着无数海鸥不安地盘旋的羽毛。

And so the book opens with her like kind of like girding her loins to go up into her boss's office and ask if she can do some reporting work.

本书篇就描述了她鼓起勇气走进老板办公室，询问否可以做一些报道工作的情景。

And here we are right now, girding our loins and like making communities and trying to think about what it's going to be like to like work together to fight this.

而现在我们正在摩拳擦掌，建立社区，思考如何共同努力来应对个问题。

That requires a level of loin girding that I have not done to date because I have to start once you get into holidays, then we have to actually start thinking about all the bits of the holidays.

需要一种我迄今未曾实践的勇气， 因为一旦进入假期，我们就得真正始考虑所有与假期相关的细节。