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

• We should prop up the fence.
  我们应该用东西支撑住这栅栏。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Critics are doubtless right that Chinese money has helped prop up unscrupulous regimes in Khartoum and Harare.
  批评者的这种说法无疑是正确的：中国的资金帮助支持了肆无忌惮的苏丹和津巴布韦政权。
• To support on or as if on crutches; prop up.
  支撑支在或犹如支在拐杖上；支撑。
• 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。
• 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。
• She said she has hired the best political team and needs to compete with unions that are spending millions of dollars to prop up Brown's campaign.
  她说她已雇佣了最好的政治团队并且需要与需要花费数百万美元与支持布朗选举的工会竞争。
• 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？