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。
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。
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。
China's no-strings-attached lending has led to charges that it will do anything to get at the continent's rich resources, including propping up governments accused of repressing its citizens, in particular Sudan and Zimbabwe.
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Einstein is only a theoretician and de Broglie is a theoretician, so one theoretician propping up another theoretician, this is a mutual admiration society.
爱因斯坦是个理论家,布罗意也是，因此一个理论家可以去认可另一位，这是个彼此仰慕的社会。
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Because it was bankrupt, Cuba was forced to stop propping up the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.
But to suggest it has restrained from propping up industries is a tad disingenuous.
Syrian rebels offer a different narrative, accusing Hezbollah of propping up the Assad regime.