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

• 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。
• 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。
• We should prop up the fence.
  我们应该用东西支撑住这栅栏。
• 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。
• It is not the government's policy to prop up declining industries.
  资助不景气的工业不是政府的政策。
• Money would prop up your head?
  钱能支起你的头来吗？
• 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。
• American troops were sent in to prop up the regime.
  美国军队被派来支持该政权。
• 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。
• Either this is the one piece of the puzzle that I somehow got wrong, or other factors are working to temporarily confound fundamental economics and prop up the bond market.
  无论这是一件困惑，我有点错了，还是有其他因素的工作，暂时混淆基本经济学和扶植债券市场。