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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In 1998 America and Japan sold dollars to prop up the yen.
  1998年，美国和日本联手卖出美元，以提振日元汇率。
• South Korea and Taiwan signalled yesterday that they would like state pension funds to help prop up share prices.
  韩国和台湾昨日表示，它们希望国家养老基金能帮助推高股价。
• This new initiatories a desperate attempt to prop up the economy.
  这项新举措中为扶持经济而进行的拼命一搏。
• The deal to prop up Greece has bought some more time.
  刚刚达成的希腊纾困安排，为欧洲又赢得了一点时间。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。