prop up

基本解釋

Some may say that the rules should still be bent to prop up bank shares, because banks rely on confidence and their failure causes systemic damage.
一些人或許會(huì)說(shuō)法令依然應(yīng)該傾向支撐銀行股票。因?yàn)殂y行依靠信心，并且它們的破產(chǎn)引發(fā)系統(tǒng)性的破壞。
The catalyst for this week’s rally was a pervasive rumour that often crops up when sentiment becomes too jaded: government intervention, either to prop up the market or the economy.
本周重振股市的催化劑不過(guò)是一個(gè)普遍性的謠傳，一旦股市過(guò)于疲軟就會(huì)浮出水面，即：通過(guò)政府干預(yù)來(lái)支撐股市或經(jīng)濟(jì)。
And for the government to survive, he must satisfy the Catalan and Basque nationalists who prop up his minority administration.
而政府要渡過(guò)難關(guān)，那他必須滿足支持他的少數(shù)黨政府的加泰羅尼亞和巴斯克民族主義者。

Ethiopian forces that intervened to prop up the Somali government were also accused of committing war crimes.
Some have asked why companies like AIG were not allowed to go bankrupt, rather than the government investing massive sums of taxpayer money to prop them up.

One, for incontinence, was a ball-like device used to prop up tissue around the urethra.
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How much potential is damaged will depend, in part, on how well policymakers prop up demand.
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