jack up

英 [dʒæk ʌp]

美 [dʒæk ʌp]

用千斤顶托起（汽车等）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 用千斤顶托起（汽车等）
  If youjack upa heavy object such as a car, you raise it off the ground using a jack.
  1. They jacked up the car...
     他们用千斤顶托起了汽车。
  2. All I had to do was jack the car up and put on the spare.
     我要做的就是用千斤顶把汽车托起来，再把备胎换上。
• PHRASAL VERB 不合理地抬高，哄抬（价格）；大幅度增加（数量）
  Tojack upthe price or amount of something means to increase it to an unreasonable or unacceptable level.
  1. The plan would cost so much that the company would have to jack up its prices...
     这一计划耗资巨大，公司将不得不大幅度提高价格。
  2. Inflation has jacked up the rate of unemployment.
     通货膨胀导致了失业率的大幅攀升。

英英释义

verb

• lift with a special device
  1. jack up the car so you can change the tire
  Synonym:jack

双语例句

• We should jack up discipline among the servicemen.
  我们应加强服役人员的纪律性。
• Jack up the car and change the wheel with the punctured tire.
  用千斤顶把汽车抬起，把跑气的轮胎换掉。
• In the budget the chancellor is bound to jack up the price of cigarettes.
  在预算中，该大臣必然要提高香烟的价格。
• When the bearing should be replaced, the steel bracket is installed by fastening bars through the pipes, The bracket can be taken as the working plane to jack up the beams.
  为安装并固定钢牛腿千斤顶的工作平面提供了保证；同时也提出了其它可行的设计方案.以期为考虑支座更换的桥梁设计提供参考。
• Some major publishers jack up the price libraries pay for e-books compared to what they charge the public.
  相较于公开售价，一些大出版商有意抬高图书馆购买电子书的价格。
• If they jack up the wage rates they'll have to cut down on expenditure somewhere else.
  他们要提高工资比率，就得削减其他方面的开支。
• Your body reacts by flooding the bloodstream with hormones that tense up your muscles and jack up your heart rate and blood pressure.
  你的身体做出的反应是荷尔蒙流入血液，让肌肉紧缩并使心率和血压上升。
• None of this is to say that the Fed should jack up rates without warning, or to extremely high levels.
  所有这些并不是说，美联储应在不提出任何警告的情况下加息，或者将利率上调至极高水平。
• The tests, prompted by the discovery that a Chinese subcontractor had used toxic lead paint in some of Mattel's toys, promise to jack up costs in an industry in which margins are already razor-thin.
  客户要求进行测试的起因是，人们发现一家中国转包商在美泰的一些玩具中使用了有毒的含铅油漆。这些测试肯定会增加利润已经极其微薄的玩具行业的成本。
• They jack up their prices in the tourist season.
  在旅游季节他们高抬价格。