支撑：通过在下方或侧面放置物体来防止（某物）倒塌或滑动。
支持：给予（某人）帮助、鼓励或支持。
prop up // [ propping propped props ]
动词词组 To prop up something means to support it or help it to survive. 支撑; 维持
Investments in the U.S. money market have propped up the American dollar.
对美国货币市场的投资一直在支撑着美元。
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支撑；支持
He siphoned $1.2 billion from his companies to prop up his crumbling media empire.
他从他所有的公司抽调12亿美元用来支持他摇摇欲坠的媒体王国。
One night, his flatmates found him in his attic bedroom screaming and trying to prop up the roof with his arms.
一天晚上，他的室友们发现他在阁楼的卧室尖叫，还试着用手臂去够屋顶。
We had to prop up the roof with a wooden post.
我们必须用一根木柱子撑住屋顶。
Ethiopian forces that intervened to prop up the Somali government were also accused of committing war crimes.
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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.
VOA : standard.2009.03.24
One, for incontinence, was a ball-like device used to prop up tissue around the urethra.
How much potential is damaged will depend, in part, on how well policymakers prop up demand.
Yet, ironically, Asia's massive accumulation of reserves is helping to prop up the American economy.