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

• 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。
• It is not the government's policy to prop up declining industries.
  资助不景气的工业不是政府的政策。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We should prop up the fence.
  我们应该用东西支撑住这栅栏。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It will not prop up your ego or console you when you are down.
  当你倒下时它不能支撑起你的自我或拯救你。