prop的意思|prop的解释-里氏词典

prop [prɑp]

n. 支柱, 支持者, 倚靠人, 道具, 螺旋桨

vt. 支撑, 维持

[医] 支器, 张器

prop
propped, propping

[ noun ]

a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling

<noun.artifact>

any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie

<noun.artifact>

before every scene he ran down his checklist of props

a propeller that rotates to push against air

<noun.artifact>

[ verb ]

support by placing against something solid or rigid

<verb.contact>

prop up

shore

shore up

shore and buttress an old building

Prop \Prop\, n.
A shell, used as a die. See {Props}.

Prop \Prop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Propped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Propping}.] [Akin to LG. & D. proppen to cram, stuff, thrust
into, stop, G. pfropfen, Dan. proppe, Sw. proppa; of
uncertain origin, cf. G. pfropfen to graft, fr. L. propago
set, layer of a plant, slip, shoot. Cf. 3d. {Prop},
{Propagate}.]
To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something
under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building;
(Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining
state. --Shak.

Till the bright mountains prop the incumbent sky.
--Pope.

For being not propp'd by ancestry. --Shak.

I prop myself upon those few supports that are left me.
--Pope.

Prop \Prop\, n. [Akin to LG., D., & Dan. prop stopple, stopper,
cork, Sw. propp, G. pfropf. See {Prop}, v.]
That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which
anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a
prop for a building. ``Two props of virtue.'' --Shak.

In spite of the promises of a new openness in UK economic policy, we may never know the true scale of the Bank of England's efforts to prop up the pound.
Some economists believe a weaker dollar will help prop up exports by making U.S. products less expensive overseas.
There are indications that BCCI drew capital from First American to prop itself up.
Shorts say his proposal is another attempt to prop up the price.
In this year's attempt to prop up the yen, major central banks "weren't doing it jointly," Mr. Williamson says.
Eventually, the billions of dollars we sent to prop up a socialist experiment were insufficient to keep the economy from collapsing.
McKenzie River officials say they didn't pay to have their product included in the movie, and a spokesman for Sony Corp.'s Columbia Pictures unit confirms that Ice Cube suggested the liquid prop.
One thing that would prop up bank stocks would be "a lot of excess capacity coming out of the banking industry," Kraushaar said, or in other words, mergers between large institutions.
Soviet troops entered Afghanistan at the end of 1979 to prop up the pro-Soviet government and stayed on to help fight the guerrillas.
No gesture, no prop was exaggerated or wasted.
In Vermont, as in some other rural areas of the country, the power tool best known for felling trees _ or as a prop in horror movies _ is being used to sculpt figures out of wood.
Financial aid could help prop him up.
For example, he is co-operating with CVC Capital Partners - the European venture capital arm of Citicorp - on undefined plans to rescue GFT, another troubled Italian supplier of Armani clothes, and prop up Simint.
He also had intended to call for the end of credit and low-interest loans "to prop up Communist dictatorships."
Rempp owned restaurants in the Los Angeles area and in San Francisco, where he operated the Sailing Ship, an actual 1908 Danish vessel he bought from a movie company that had used it as a prop, Mrs. Rempp said.
It still looks tediously static, with ground usually being gained at about the speed of a self-advancing pit prop.
Of course the same was true of Tommy Cooper, and, like Cooper, Sadowitz is well on the way to exploiting his magic solely as a prop for his comedy.
In Britain's first scandal involving an exchange since London's 1986 Big Bang, Fox officials have admitted trying to prop up their flagging property-futures market with dummy trades.
However, the mark's plunge against the dollar did fuel speculation that the Bundesbank will come under more pressure to raise West German interest rates to prop up its currency.
I submit that the most unusual prop is the chairman's P.R. man, who doesn't know a podium from a lectern.
But since Trafalgar has cut the final dividend and left the way open for another reduction next year, Hongkong Land's option to buy more stock at 85p is the only convincing prop for the shares.
Soviet troops entered Afghanistan in December 1979 to prop up a socialist government against attacks by Islamic guerrillas.
"There's nothing to prop up the revenue line," said Mr. Kraushaar.
The Bank of Japan stepped into the market to buy dollars and prop up the U.S. currency Thursday when the dollar opened at a four-month low.
Ron Napier, an economist with Salomon Brothers Asia Ltd., said that the U.S. second-quarter gross national product figures released overnight helped to prop up the market during the day.
Such private funding and loan guarantees would let Bush prop up Gorbachev without the direct government spending that could spark a political fight.
The two poured the money into Iraq during the 1980-88 war against Iran to prop up its economy and pay for weapons.
But a democratically elected government in East Germany can count on West German aid to prop up its sluggish economy.
The government would keep half that money to help prop up any U.S. banks caught in the BCCI web, and the rest would be turned over to the foreign liquidators of the bank.
"Nobody's going to spell it out in huge letters: 'We may own junk bonds to prop up yields to make us look good,'" says Steve Janachowski of Brouwer & Janachowski, a San Francisco investment-advisory firm specializing in mutual funds.

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