prop up

英 [prɒp ʌp]

美 [prɑːp ʌp]

架; 搁; 靠; 支撑; 维持

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 支撑；维持
  Toprop upsomething means to support it or help it to survive.
  1. Investments in the U.S. money market have propped up the American dollar...
     对美国资金市场的投资扶持了美元。
  2. On the Stock Exchange, aggressive buying propped the market up.
     在证券交易所，市场在大量买单的推动下有所上扬。
• → see:prop 1

英英释义

verb

• support by placing against something solid or rigid
  1. shore and buttress an old building
  Synonym:propshore upshore

双语例句

• We should prop up the fence.
  我们应该用东西支撑住这栅栏。
• Money would prop up your head?
  钱能支起你的头来吗？
• She said she has hired the best political team and needs to compete with unions that are spending millions of dollars to prop up Brown's campaign.
  她说她已雇佣了最好的政治团队并且需要与需要花费数百万美元与支持布朗选举的工会竞争。
• The large-scale interventions of the central banks to prop up liquidity last week raise difficult questions.
  各国央行为了提升市场流动性而采取的大规模干预措施，提出了一些难以解答的问题。
• Either this is the one piece of the puzzle that I somehow got wrong, or other factors are working to temporarily confound fundamental economics and prop up the bond market.
  无论这是一件困惑，我有点错了，还是有其他因素的工作，暂时混淆基本经济学和扶植债券市场。
• It is not the government's policy to prop up declining industries.
  资助不景气的工业不是政府的政策。
• American troops were sent in to prop up the regime.
  美国军队被派来支持该政权。
• Can it also help prop up banks 'equity capital market desks?
  但是，铝也会有助于支撑银行的股权资本市场业务吗？
• To support on or as if on crutches; prop up.
  支撑支在或犹如支在拐杖上；支撑。
• The government has stressed its reluctance to provide any tax-payers money to prop up AIG.
  政府方面已强调指出，不愿用纳税人的钱为美国国际集团提供支持。