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
- 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。 - 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。 - We should prop up the fence.
我们应该用东西支撑住这栅栏。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。