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

• 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。
• 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。
• Money would prop up your head?
  钱能支起你的头来吗？
• 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 took all the sock of the buffet, then I just prop up at bed, didn't want to move, and also didn't to phone, I was unable to go to urge to stay again.
  小卖部的零食被我吃了个遍，然后撑在床上不想动，也没打电话过去，我再也无力去挽留了。
• American troops were sent in to prop up the regime.
  美国军队被派来支持该政权。
• 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。
• 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 plan that prop up had ended the first batch.
  支撑计划第一批已经结束了。
• 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。