Prop
[prɒp] or [prɑp]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling.
哈利整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A shell, used as a die. See Props.
(v. t.) 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.
(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.
手打:鲁迪
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Support, sustain, uphold, hold up, shore up.
n. Support, stay, brace, FULCRUM.
整理:莉莲
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Support, stay, buttress, shore, strut, pin
ANT:Superstructure, superincumbency, top-weight, gravitation, extirpation,subverter, destroyer
SYN:Sustain, support, stay, maintain,[See SUPPORT]
手打:莫尔
解釋/意思:
n. anything on which a weight rests for support: a support: a stay.—v.t. to keep from falling by means of something placed under or against: to support or to sustain in any way:—pr.p. prop′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. propped.—n. Prop′page.
校對:维托
例句/造句/用法:
- The big men from Machiavelli through Rousseau to Karl Marx brought history, logic, science and philosophy to prop up and strengthen their deepest desires. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Select a smooth board 4 feet long and prop it so that the end _A_ (Fig. 104) is 1 foot above the level of the table; the length of the incline is then 4 times as great as its height. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Prop the board so that the end _A_ is 2 feet above the table level; that is, arrange the inclined plane in such a way that its length is twice as great as its height. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- While one fellow creature remains to whom aid can be afforded, stay by and prop your shattered, falling engine! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The last inconvenience would soon have become intolerable, had I not found means to open and prop up the skylight, thus admitting some freshness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- At the very time when with keen delight she welcomed the tokens of maternity, this sole prop of her life failed, her husband died of the plague. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- She reclined, propped up, from mere habit, on a couch: as nearly in her old usual attitude, as anything so helpless could be kept in. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Simmons sat propped up by the pillows and smoked. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Holmes propped it against the cruet-stand and read it while he ate. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- She came to him as he lay propped up in the library. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He was propped up on a bed-rest, and always had his gold-headed stick lying by him. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The bed was in the centre of the room, and in it, propped up with pillows, was the owner of the house. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Women, after all, gentlemen,' said the enthusiastic Mr. Snodgrass, 'are the great props and comforts of our existence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- His judgment, however, wanted surgical props; it was rickety. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Ye'll need propping. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
整理:凯蒂