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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

  • American troops were sent in to prop up the regime.
    美国军队被派来支持该政权。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • This new initiatories a desperate attempt to prop up the economy.
    这项新举措中为扶持经济而进行的拼命一搏。
  • This year has already seen two aggressive steps by the federal government to prop up the economy.
    今年以来,为了使美国经济重振旗鼓,联邦政府已经采取了两个大刀阔斧的措施。
  • 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。
  • The banks won't prop up the company if it shows no sign of returning to profitability.
    如果某个公司没有重新赢利的迹象,银行就不会支持它。
  • 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。
  • 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。