jack up

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美 [dʒæk ʌp]

用千斤顶托起（汽车等）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 用千斤顶托起（汽车等）
  If youjack upa heavy object such as a car, you raise it off the ground using a jack.
  1. They jacked up the car...
     他们用千斤顶托起了汽车。
  2. All I had to do was jack the car up and put on the spare.
     我要做的就是用千斤顶把汽车托起来，再把备胎换上。
• PHRASAL VERB 不合理地抬高，哄抬（价格）；大幅度增加（数量）
  Tojack upthe price or amount of something means to increase it to an unreasonable or unacceptable level.
  1. The plan would cost so much that the company would have to jack up its prices...
     这一计划耗资巨大，公司将不得不大幅度提高价格。
  2. Inflation has jacked up the rate of unemployment.
     通货膨胀导致了失业率的大幅攀升。

英英释义

verb

• lift with a special device
  1. jack up the car so you can change the tire
  Synonym:jack

双语例句

• If they jack up the wage rates they'll have to cut down on expenditure somewhere else.
  他们要提高工资比率，就得削减其他方面的开支。
• None of this is to say that the Fed should jack up rates without warning, or to extremely high levels.
  所有这些并不是说，美联储应在不提出任何警告的情况下加息，或者将利率上调至极高水平。
• The tests, prompted by the discovery that a Chinese subcontractor had used toxic lead paint in some of Mattel's toys, promise to jack up costs in an industry in which margins are already razor-thin.
  客户要求进行测试的起因是，人们发现一家中国转包商在美泰的一些玩具中使用了有毒的含铅油漆。这些测试肯定会增加利润已经极其微薄的玩具行业的成本。
• By pushing up CDs prices ( a CdS insures against sovereign default), it is alleged that they jack up the yield that countries must pay for their bonds.
  据称，这些投机者通过推高cds（防止主权债务违约的一种保险）价格，抬高了各国必须为债券支付的收益率。
• When the economy overheated, the central bank was compelled to jack up interest rates higher than it would otherwise have had to. This attracted massive capital inflows – which, in turn, pushed up the real.
  随着经济开始过热，巴西央行只得把利率上调至本无必要调至的水平。这吸引大量热钱流入，反过来又推高了雷亚尔汇率。
• Jack up discipline among the servicemen He is attached to a destroyer.
  加强服役人员的纪律性他在一艘驱逐舰上服役。
• We should jack up discipline among the servicemen.
  我们应加强服役人员的纪律性。
• Inflation has jacked up the rate of unemployment.
  通货膨胀导致了失业率的大幅攀升。
• You cannot get in your car with the jack up like that.
  千斤顶这样放着你根本进不了车，会掉下来的！
• A day or two later in the trailhead parking lot, horses loaded into the trailer, Ennis was ready to head back to Signal, Jack up to Lightning Flat to see the old man.
  一两天之后，在山道的起点处，马匹都被赶上了卡车。埃尼斯要动身回西格诺去了，杰克则要回赖特宁平原看他爹。