jack up

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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

• Workers often jack up a car to change a tyre.
  工人经常用起重机架起汽车换轮胎。
• 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。
• Leverage boosts buying power through debt, the same way a100-pound woman uses a lever to jack up a3,000-pound car.
  杠杆作用通过贷款使购房能力提高。就像100磅的女士通过杠杆机制可以撬起3000磅的车一样。
• 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。
• 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。
• We should jack up discipline among the servicemen.
  我们应加强服役人员的纪律性。
• When the economy overheated, the central bank was compelled to jack up interest rates higher than it would otherwise have had to. This attracted massive capital inflows – which, in turn, pushed up the real.
  随着经济开始过热，巴西央行只得把利率上调至本无必要调至的水平。这吸引大量热钱流入，反过来又推高了雷亚尔汇率。
• 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。
• 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。
• They jack up their prices in the tourist season.
  在旅游季节他们高抬价格。