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

• 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。
• 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。
• Money would prop up your head?
  钱能支起你的头来吗？
• 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 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。
• 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。
• Critics are doubtless right that Chinese money has helped prop up unscrupulous regimes in Khartoum and Harare.
  批评者的这种说法无疑是正确的：中国的资金帮助支持了肆无忌惮的苏丹和津巴布韦政权。
• 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。
• To support on or as if on crutches; prop up.
  支撑支在或犹如支在拐杖上；支撑。
• 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。