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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

  • 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。
  • 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。
  • American troops were sent in to prop up the regime.
    美国军队被派来支持该政权。
  • 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。
  • To support on or as if on crutches; prop up.
    支撑支在或犹如支在拐杖上;支撑。
  • 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。
  • The banks won't prop up the company if it shows no sign of returning to profitability.
    如果某个公司没有重新赢利的迹象,银行就不会支持它。
  • 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。
  • 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。