英语释义

1. something that props or sustains support

2. to support by placing something under or against —often used with up

3. to support by placing against something

4. sustain, strengthen —often used with up
a government propped up by the military

5. property sense 3
stage props

6. something used in creating or enhancing a desired effect
buy books … as cultural props because they want to appear literate
— John Powers

7. propeller

8. property

9. proposition

10. proprietor

11. related to propionic acid
propane propyl

12. to support (something) by placing it against something else or by placing something under it

13. to keep from falling or slipping by providing a support under or against
… he propped his head on his elbow and studied me closely.
— Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

14. to give help, encouragement, or support to

15. something that supports

16. an object used by a performer or actor or used to create a certain effect in a play or movie

片语

propping agent支撑剂

propping fracture裂缝支撑

propping rheum支饮

prop up支撑；支持

propping zone支撑带

propping fullness支满

propping wheel支撑轮

propping works承托工程

roof propping支柱护顶

girder propping安顶梁

英汉例句

• for decades after its african possessions won independence, french officials, oil bosses and soldiers meddled behind the scenes, propping up many unsavoury leaders along the way.

  在法国以前的非洲殖民地赢得独立后的这几十年里，法国的官员、石油老板以及军方一直在幕后操作，暗地里支持了许多臭名昭着的领导。

• that said, watching things on the iphone can be annoying, especially since we all wind up propping the thing up on all sorts of strange contrivances.

  话说回来，在iphone上看东西会是苦恼的，特别是用各种奇怪的工具把iphone支撑起来这事给我们带来很多麻烦。

• now it is busy propping up failed companies such as general motors and throwing huge sums of money at the public sector.

  现在美国国会正在忙于支持诸如通用汽车之类陷入困境的公司，并将大量的资本注入公有机构。

• mr clegg knows that, for a tribune of 「change」, propping up the old king, or seeming ready to, could be devastating.

  因为克雷格深知：公众论坛上的风向发生变化，支持这一位「老国王（或在外界看来做其支持準备）将会导致毁灭性的灾难。

• at present the newspaper-loving baby-boomers are propping up circulation.

  目前出生在婴儿潮期间爱读报纸的人是报纸发行的重要支撑力量。

• but beyond railway expansion and housing construction, policy-driven investment could be propping up capacity that the market doesn「t want.

  象扩张铁路和住房建设这类政策驱动的投资行为可能支撑起制造业和工业的产能，但那并非市场所愿。

• the report, called feeding the beast, said the money is propping up an industry that is driving out small farmers and providing low quality food for the consumer.

  该报告题目就是‘喂养牲畜’，报告说，这笔钱支撑的这个产业，迫使小农户退出市场，而自己却为消费者提供低质量的食品。

• but propping up ailing ones ultimately harms their healthier rivals, by depriving them of resources they could more fruitfully deploy, including capital and qualified staff.

  但支持弱小的企业将最终损害它们更具优势的对手，因为这样剥夺了其原本可以更富有成效部署各类资源（包括资本与人力）的权力。

• at present the newspaper-loving baby-boomers are propping up circulation. when their eyesight fails, newspaper circulations are likely to collapse.

  现在，婴儿潮出生的报纸爱好者支撑着报纸的发行量，然而，当这部分人的视力恶化，报纸发行量也随之崩溃。

• the series became more interesting (thanks to alfonso cuarón) over the years, but it’s never managed to stand on its own, to find something unique to say without the books propping up every scene.

  近几年来，这系列电影有趣了些（这真是多亏了导演阿方索·卡隆），但是影片依旧是靠书来支撑起故事情节，而不是试图从电影角度发掘新意。

• this is particularly important to japan because it is saddled with the highest public-debt-to-gdp ratio in the rich world, at about 180%, the legacy of years of propping up a moribund economy.

  这对于日本尤其重要，因为日本承担着发达国家最大的债务-gdp比率，大约是180%，这是几年来政府支撑低迷的经济的产物。

• by propping up the region’s weaker banks and buying its more indebted economies’ sovereign debt, the ecb could engineer a back-door bail-out of the euro zone’s periphery.

  通过支持区域内居于劣势的银行以及购买更多负债经济体的外债，欧洲央行可以为欧元区的外围设计一个作弊式的应急措施。

• scientists can be as garrulous as politicians when propping up a bar.

  当支持一个定律时，科学家可能跟政客一样喋喋不休。

• the short, squat man in the dallas cowboys windbreaker staggers out from the arcade, propping himself against the wall.

  身穿达拉斯牛仔风衣的矮胖男人蹒跚的从拱廊走出来，支撑着自己靠在墻上。

• it was a question of propping up what was left of my old life.

  这是关于由什么来支撑我过去生活的问题。

• in most cases, you can do this by lying down and propping the injury up on pillows.

  在许多情况下，你可以躺下，然后用枕头支撑受伤的部位来做这个。

• other countries, most notably china, will be much less dependent on the u.s. market for their exports and will have less interest in propping up the dollar.

  其他国家,尤其是中国,他们的进口,很少依靠美国市场,也很少有兴趣支持美元。

• short-term interest rates fell to historic lows, propping up consumer spending, but also fuelling the housing bubble and sowing the seeds of today」s upheaval.

  短期利率降到历史低位，支撑消费支出，但也刺激了房地产市场的泡沫，为今天的巨变埋下了种子。

• with most governments unable, or unwilling, to offer more fiscal stimulus, central banks are left solely responsible for propping up the flagging recovery.

  由于大多数国家政府无法或不愿意提供更多的财政刺激方案，央行正独立支撑着疲弱的经济复苏的责任。

• even goldman would struggle to make money without the array of government backstops propping up the system.

  在没有政府支持金融体系的情况下，高盛这样的公司也得奋力拼搏才能盈利。

• most of those companies are lumbering, bureaucratic engines of inefficiency, driven more by politics than profit, and it will not be good if they are the ones responsible for propping up growth.

  这些国有公司大多行动缓慢、效率低下，由政治驱动而不是利润，如果由这一因素支撑增长，那不会是一件好事。

• it is about creating new companies, new industries, not propping up behemoths, 」 he says.

  创造就业要建立新公司、新行业，而不是支持大企业。”他说。

• imagine a 1980s europe where cnd had triumphed, with left-wing governments in britain and germany scrapping nato, surrendering to kremlin pressure and propping up the evil empire.

  想像一下，80年代的欧洲，cnd胜利的地方，使英国左翼和德国不加入北约，屈服于克里姆林宫的压力，支持罪恶的皇帝。

• limits on rice production, also intended to help small farmers by propping up rice prices, make it difficult to expand production, many farmers say.

  许多农场主认为，对于产量的限制旨在通过支撑稻米价格保护小型农场主，但这让扩大产量变得困难。