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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• I had to use bricks to prop up my broken bed.
  我的床坏了，必须用砖头支撑起来。
• 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 deal to prop up Greece has bought some more time.
  刚刚达成的希腊纾困安排，为欧洲又赢得了一点时间。
• Money would prop up your head?
  钱能支起你的头来吗？
• These prop up the course to blended the technique to constitute the information fusion courses together with the information.
  这些支撑学科连同信息融合技术本身就构成了信息融合学科群。
• 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。