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.- 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。 - 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。
- Investments in the U.S. money market have propped up the American dollar...
- → see:prop 1
英英释义
verb
- support by placing against something solid or rigid
- shore and buttress an old building
双语例句
- We should prop up the fence.
我们应该用东西支撑住这栅栏。 - 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。 - Governments have gone to similar extremes, taking on vast sums of debt to prop up industries from banking to carmaking.
各国政府也走向同样的极端,为支持从银行到汽车制造等一系列产业而承担了巨额债务。 - American troops were sent in to prop up the regime.
美国军队被派来支持该政权。 - 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。 - In 1998 America and Japan sold dollars to prop up the yen.
1998年,美国和日本联手卖出美元,以提振日元汇率。 - Critics are doubtless right that Chinese money has helped prop up unscrupulous regimes in Khartoum and Harare.
批评者的这种说法无疑是正确的:中国的资金帮助支持了肆无忌惮的苏丹和津巴布韦政权。 - 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。 - If necessary, prop up your feet with a footstool or other support.
如有必要,用脚凳或其它支持物垫起双脚。 - I took all the sock of the buffet, then I just prop up at bed, didn't want to move, and also didn't to phone, I was unable to go to urge to stay again.
小卖部的零食被我吃了个遍,然后撑在床上不想动,也没打电话过去,我再也无力去挽留了。