jack up

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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

• They jacked up the car
  他们用千斤顶托起了汽车。
• A day or two later in the trailhead parking lot, horses loaded into the trailer, Ennis was ready to head back to Signal, Jack up to Lightning Flat to see the old man.
  一两天之后，在山道的起点处，马匹都被赶上了卡车。埃尼斯要动身回西格诺去了，杰克则要回赖特宁平原看他爹。
• He has no intention to jack up the plan.
  他没有放弃这个计划的意思。
• Maybe they are going to jack up the price of oil.
  他们可能会抬高石油价格。
• Always jack up the car before inflating the tire so that the tube can distribute itself around the tire evenly.
  在充气前，通常应该用千斤顶顶起汽车，使内胎能够均匀地沿着轮胎的每一处扩充起来。
• 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。
• They jack up their prices in the tourist season.
  在旅游季节他们高抬价格。
• Make sure you've got the tools ready before you jack up the car.
  在用千斤顶把汽车托起之前，一定要把工具准备好。
• 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。
• 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。