prop up

1. PHRASAL VERB 支撑；维持
   To prop up something 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。
2. → see: prop 1

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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. Money would prop up your head?
   钱能支起你的头来吗？
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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？
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. American troops were sent in to prop up the regime.
    美国军队被派来支持该政权。
16. She said she has hired the best political team and needs to compete with unions that are spending millions of dollars to prop up Brown's campaign.
    她说她已雇佣了最好的政治团队并且需要与需要花费数百万美元与支持布朗选举的工会竞争。
17. 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？
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. To support on or as if on crutches; prop up.
    支撑支在或犹如支在拐杖上；支撑。
21. 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。
22. 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。
23. The plan that prop up had ended the first batch.
    支撑计划第一批已经结束了。
24. 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。
25. 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。
26. 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。
27. 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。
28. Governments have gone to similar extremes, taking on vast sums of debt to prop up industries from banking to carmaking.
    各国政府也走向同样的极端，为支持从银行到汽车制造等一系列产业而承担了巨额债务。
29. We should prop up the fence.
    我们应该用东西支撑住这栅栏。
30. 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。

verb

1. support by placing against something solid or rigid
   1. shore and buttress an old building

   Synonym:    propshore upshore