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.
一些人或許會說法令依然應該傾向支撐銀行股票。因為銀行依靠信心，并且它們的破產引發(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是一個普遍性的謠傳，一旦股市過于疲軟就會浮出水面，即：通過政府干預來支撐股市或經濟。
And for the government to survive, he must satisfy the Catalan and Basque nationalists who prop up his minority administration.
而政府要渡過難關，那他必須滿足支持他的少數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.
ECONOMIST: Free exchange