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

• 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。
• 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。
• This year has already seen two aggressive steps by the federal government to prop up the economy.
  今年以来，为了使美国经济重振旗鼓，联邦政府已经采取了两个大刀阔斧的措施。
• 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。
• 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。
• They tend to reject further fiscal stimulus to prop up demand.
  它们不想通过进一步的财政刺激来扩大需求。
• 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。
• We should prop up the fence.
  我们应该用东西支撑住这栅栏。
• But in darkly, they then my emollient walking stick, is to give me the courage, prop up the dot to my confidence, encourage me to grope for the road of the precession in darkly.
  可是在黑暗中，他们则是我有力的拐杖，是给我勇气，给我信心的支撑点，激励着我在黑暗中摸索前进的道路。
• 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？