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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Why does the government prop up housing prices so we have to pay so much?
为什么我们一定要支付政府抬高的房价？ - To support on or as if on crutches; prop up.
支撑支在或犹如支在拐杖上；支撑。 - 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。 - Governments have battled to prop up their banks, committing trillions of dollars in the process.
各国政府均奋力支撑其银行，并在这一过程中为数万亿美元提供担保。 - Money would prop up your head?
钱能支起你的头来吗？