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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Can it also help prop up banks 'equity capital market desks?
  但是，铝也会有助于支撑银行的股权资本市场业务吗？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。