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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• American troops were sent in to prop up the regime.
  美国军队被派来支持该政权。
• 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。
• 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。
• The plan that prop up had ended the first batch.
  支撑计划第一批已经结束了。
• 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？
• If necessary, prop up your feet with a footstool or other support.
  如有必要，用脚凳或其它支持物垫起双脚。