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。
Nobody gets to be an octogenarian without sometimes feeling heavy-limbed and in need of a prop (usually in the form of a chair).
没有人在耄耋之年不会时而手脚笨拙，也不需要支撑物（通常是椅子）的。
In response, companies have tried desperately to prop up revenues using a variety of promotions, advertising and other marketing ploys, often to no avail.
作为回应，企业绝望的试图使用促销、广告和其他市场策略来支撑收入，但往往劳而无功。
In the 1960s and 1970s, most personal and corporate planes were propeller or turbo-prop aircraft, which fly at a lower altitude than jetliners.
在1960和1970年代，大部分个人和企业的飞机是飞行高度低于喷气式飞机的螺旋桨式或涡轮螺旋桨式飞机。
The prop in the movie is a contrived imaginary sculpture that looks nothing like the original gem, but Adam wanted to re-create the prop and not the original.
这部电影中那个道具源于想象，和原件根本就不想，但是亚当想重做这件道具而不是原件。
On his first outing to meet European colleagues in Luxembourg this week he found himself like a prop pinned under a ruck, with studs tearing into his flesh.
这周第一次尝试与欧洲同僚在卢森堡见面时，他感觉自己像被很多东西压住的一个支架，身体都被图钉按死了。
Yet in the long run creating money to prop up asset prices is not a sustainable tactic.
然而从长期来看，创造货币以支撑资产价格是种不可持续的手段。
This extraordinary activism helped to stem panic, prop up the financial system and counter the collapse in private demand.
这种极端激进主义在抑制恐慌、支撑金融系统和反击私人需求崩溃方面起到了很大的作用。
In a vast country where twin-prop Cessnas can whisk you to your remote safari camp in less than an hour, the two - or three-day trip is a safari - a "journey" - in the true Swahili sense of the word.
在一个地域辽阔的国家，一架双引擎的塞斯纳飞机可以在一小时之内把你送到遥远的狩猎营地，那么两到三天的火车旅程就体现出斯瓦西里语里旅行这个单词的真正含义了。
The hound peered through a clump of nettles, and spotted four figures sitting in the center of the quarry on that indispensable prop to good secret dens everywhere, the common milk crate.
猎犬从一片荨麻间窥视过去，看到采掘场中心有四个人影。他们正坐在所有秘密据点都必不可少的道具——一个牛奶箱上。
As a general rule, the election night phone call is something of a social prop, a symbolic end point - or in some cases a physical spectacle.
一般来说，大选之夜的让步电话是一种社会支持，一个象征性的终点—或者在某种情况下一个物理景观。
In addition, the changes make all forms of trading, particularly "prop" trading, more expensive by forcing Banks to hold more capital in reserve to support the activity.
此外，新规定还迫使银行增加资本储备，以支持其活动，这使得各种类型的交易成本都有所提高，尤其是自营交易。
Even in America, the fiscal stimulus is kicking in, the "cash for clunkers" scheme is a big, if temporary, prop to output and firms will, sooner or later, stop cutting inventories.
即使在美国，财政刺激计划也正见成效，“老爷车换现金”这一庞大计划短期内可维持汽车产量，而那些公司早晚也会停止削减库存。
At worst, some Banks may fail-and trigger real bank runs in countries whose shaky public finances have left them ill equipped to prop up their financial institutions.
最坏的情况则可能是某些银行倒闭，并在那些公共财政原本脆弱、无力支撑金融机构的国家引发真正的银行挤兑。
To mitigate these risks policymakers need to do more to prop up demand, especially in countries that have external surpluses.
要减轻这些风险，政策制定者需要做更多来刺激需求，尤其是贸易顺差国家。
In fact, if you look at what happened around Prop 23, it was not a business vs. environmental fight in the way that you think of the cliche. It was split.
事实上，如果你观察一下围绕23号提案发生的事情，会发现这并不是一场老调重弹的企业与环保之间的战争，而是一种分歧。
The much watched Prop 8 case in California has often overshadowed another gay marriage suit on the East Coast, but a ruling today out of Boston has turned the tables for now.
万众瞩目的加州8号提案案件常掩盖了在东海岸发生的另一件同性婚姻诉讼，但今天在波士顿产生的这一判决立刻扭转了局面。
The us Treasury signalled it was ready to step in with funds intended to prop up the financial system to prevent the biggest industrial failure in us history.
美国财政部表示，他们准备充裕资金涉足原打算支持的金融体系，以阻止美国历史上最大的工业公司倒闭。
JEFF: A prop is missing. The shot of Philip isn't in here.
杰夫：丢了一件道具。菲利普的照片不在这里。
With much of the world expected to remain in recession this year, big consumer brands are pinning their hopes on China's billion customers to prop up sales amid the global downturn.
由于今年全球多数地区预计仍将处于衰退之中，各大消费品牌正将希望寄托在中国十亿消费者身上，指望他们在全球衰退期间能够提振自家的销售。
The euro has tumbled amid worries that a bailout of Ireland, being arranged in part to prop up the country's hemorrhaging banking sector, will make it necessary to rescue Portugal as well.
欧盟正在安排对爱尔兰的紧急援助，其部分原因是为了挽救该国损失惨重的银行部门。人们担心葡萄牙很快也将成为下一个援助对象，因此欧元出现了下跌。
THE dollar's steep drop this year has triggered speculation that central banks may soon intervene in the foreign-exchange markets to prop up the sickly currency.
美元今年急速下滑引起人们开始推测，央行可能马上就会对外汇市场进行干预，以支持有些病态的货币。
But in the short run, credit was an easy way to prop up the living standards of those at the bottom of the economic pile.
但是从短期来看，要想支持落在经济收入队尾的人们的生活水平，信贷是一条捷径。
Morgan Stanley closed most of its prop trading units after experiencing heavy losses as a result of the mortgage meltdown in 2008.
2008年抵押贷款危机导致严重亏损后，摩根·士丹利关闭了大部分自营交易业务部门。
In other words, a central bank trying to prop up its currency must allow its sales of foreign exchange to reduce the domestic money supply.
换一句话说，央行要如果要支持它的汇率，必须容许出售外汇以降低国内的货币供应。
In other words, a central bank trying to prop up its currency must allow its sales of foreign exchange to reduce the domestic money supply.
换一句话说，央行要如果要支持它的汇率，必须容许出售外汇以降低国内的货币供应。
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