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
- 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。 - South Korea and Taiwan signalled yesterday that they would like state pension funds to help prop up share prices.
韩国和台湾昨日表示，它们希望国家养老基金能帮助推高股价。 - 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。 - 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。 - They tend to reject further fiscal stimulus to prop up demand.
它们不想通过进一步的财政刺激来扩大需求。 - 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。 - But in darkly, they then my emollient walking stick, is to give me the courage, prop up the dot to my confidence, encourage me to grope for the road of the precession in darkly.
可是在黑暗中，他们则是我有力的拐杖，是给我勇气，给我信心的支撑点，激励着我在黑暗中摸索前进的道路。 - 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。 - 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。 - Money would prop up your head?
钱能支起你的头来吗？