1.(把...)撑住;给...撑腰
1.to stop something from falling by putting something under it or against it
2.to help a government, system, organization, etc. to continue to exist, especially by providing financial or military support
1.China's decision to prop up the dollar is not going to be affected by the size of the US budget deficit.
美国缩减了财政赤字，中国人为地让美元维持在高位的决心不会因此而受影响。
2.And yet the bank is still holding rates close to zero, and is pursuing a second round of QE to prop up asset prices.
尽管现在银行汇率一直接近零，美联储仍然在继续实行第二轮定量宽松政策以支持资产价格。
3.I think this is all very good business for the Americans, and no doubt a deliberate strategy to help prop up their slowing economy.
我想这对美国人而言是一笔很好的生意，无疑也是一种深思熟虑的策略，有助于提振他们日益放缓的经济。
4.However, with Lehman, the Fed believed the system was better prepared for the shock and wanted to show it would not always prop up brokers.
然而，到雷曼出问题的时候，美联储认为金融体系已经对冲击有了更充分的准备，同时希望向外界表明，它不会总是支持经纪公司。
5.He has been helping out with the cooking and with paperwork for his wife's business, and she says she works to prop up family morale.
他现在帮忙做饭以及负责一些她妻子业务上的文书工作，她说她工作来提高全家人的士气。
6.South Korean authorities intervened to prop up the won yesterday after the currency dropped to a two-and-a-half year low against the dollar.
韩国当局昨日入市支撑韩元，此前，韩元兑美元汇率跌至两年半来最低点。
7.The economy is not money, it can be also no need for me to consider the total for the family life of the mother prop up one of the days.
经济不算是宽裕，可从也无须我去考虑，母亲总为家的生活撑起一片的天。
8.Relatives and friends for ChuDong prop up solid backing, appreciate the opponents of a ruler of him going.
亲人与朋友为楚东支撑起坚实的后盾，惺惺相惜的对手则成为他前进的标尺。
9.But in the short run, credit was an easy way to prop up the living standards of those at the bottom of the economic pile.
但是从短期来看，要想支持落在经济收入队尾的人们的生活水平，信贷是一条捷径。
10.Hillary Classic Quotations If there is no salary, housework and paid work together, a woman is not just prop up half the sky.
如果把没有薪水的操持家务和有薪水的工作加在一起，女人撑起的不只是半边天。