One theoretician propping up another theoretician—this is a mutual admiration society.
一个理论家可以去认可另一位——这是个彼此仰慕的社会。
In January of last year the Moviemania chain of movie theaters started propping its popcorn in canola oil, instead of the less healthful coconut oil that it had been using until then.
去年1月,Moviemania 连锁影院开始用菜籽油代替之前一直使用的不太健康的椰子油来制作爆米花。
I needed some steadying and some propping-up myself.
我自己也需要一些稳定和一些依靠。
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。
Propping up the financial system in 2008 clearly qualified.
2008年援助金融体系绝对是名正言顺的。
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。
If it spends its trillions, it will be at home, not in propping up others.
如果它花费了数万亿,那将会花在自家上面,而不会花在支援别国上。
He worked with a hand propping his head, feeling his skull as a memento mori.
他工作时总是用一只手支着头,好似他的头是死兆一样。
Propping up prices will delay the inevitable correction, but it will not stop it.
力挺价格会延缓这一必然的纠偏过程,但是不会使它停止。
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。
We settled in, getting the wood stove going and then propping our boots around it to dry.
我们安顿下来,生起木柴炉,把靴子放在炉边烤干。
Sometimes the mortgage companies were buying each other's debt: turtles propping each other up.
有时抵押公司会购买其他债务:就像海龟一只一只玩叠罗汉。
Other projects have shown how the Indian continent is propping up the entire Himalayan mountain chain.
还有其他项目表明了印度大陆如何支撑着整个喜马拉雅山脉。
Audi has done so well that it is now propping up the rest of the group: its margins are double those at VW.
奥迪的表现一直非常优异,目前支撑着大众集团的其他业务:它的利润是其他业务的两倍。
Propping up demand may therefore require more persistent, and sustained, budget deficits than in Japan.
因此,拉动需求可能需要维持比日本更持续长久的预算赤字。
A people reckon is neither by propping up wealth, not rely on reputation hold up, but on your self respect.
一个人的腰杆子既不是靠财富撑起的,也不是靠名声撑起的,而是要靠你对自我的尊重。
They then prop themselves up with their arms on their desk, sometimes propping their chin up with a free hand.
然后,他们会把胳膊支撑在桌面上,有时会用空闲的那只手支撑着下巴。
Some Cuban-American leaders denounce the changes as simply propping up the Castro brothers with American dollars.
有些古巴籍美国领导人公开指责这个改变只是简单地用美元资助卡斯特罗(Castro)兄弟。
The markets seem to be very worried about the fund's ability in propping up the Italian and Spanish bond markets.
市场似乎很担心EFSF可能无法撑起意大利和西班牙的债券市场。
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,支撑着自己靠在墙上。
It seemed obvious that it wasn't expanding - but since it wasn't collapsing either, something must be propping it up.
显然似乎它不是膨胀的,但是也不是坍缩的,一定有什么东西阻止它坍缩。
For now, new investors hoping to strike it rich are propping up stocks like some huge, multi-million-person pyramid scheme.
现在,期望一夜暴富的新的投资者们支撑着巨大的、成千上万人组成的金字塔似的股市。
With every other nation spending like drunken sailors, Germany is being forced towards propping up the system with its credit rating.
德国同每一个其他花钱无度的国家一起正被逼着用自己的信用评级来支撑欧元体系。
Is there another bubble forming as the Fed continues to buy up mortgage securities, while propping up other aspects of the economy?
美联储继续购买抵押贷款证券尽管刺激了经济的其它方面,但是否也正在形成另一个泡沫?
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。
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。
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prop up
v. 支撑;支持