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

• Money would prop up your head?
  钱能支起你的头来吗？
• 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。
• 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。
• To support on or as if on crutches; prop up.
  支撑支在或犹如支在拐杖上；支撑。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Can it also help prop up banks 'equity capital market desks?
  但是，铝也会有助于支撑银行的股权资本市场业务吗？
• The plan that prop up had ended the first batch.
  支撑计划第一批已经结束了。