jack up

英 [dʒæk ʌp]

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

• Your body reacts by flooding the bloodstream with hormones that tense up your muscles and jack up your heart rate and blood pressure.
  你的身体做出的反应是荷尔蒙流入血液，让肌肉紧缩并使心率和血压上升。
• 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。
• Always jack up the car before inflating the tire so that the tube can distribute itself around the tire evenly.
  在充气前，通常应该用千斤顶顶起汽车，使内胎能够均匀地沿着轮胎的每一处扩充起来。
• You need to jack up the car before you try to remove the wheel.
  你得先把汽车顶起来，然后设法拆轮子。
• Leverage boosts buying power through debt, the same way a100-pound woman uses a lever to jack up a3,000-pound car.
  杠杆作用通过贷款使购房能力提高。就像100磅的女士通过杠杆机制可以撬起3000磅的车一样。
• They jack up their prices in the tourist season.
  在旅游季节他们高抬价格。
• 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。
• He has no intention to jack up the plan.
  他没有放弃这个计划的意思。
• In the budget the chancellor is bound to jack up the price of cigarettes.
  在预算中，该大臣必然要提高香烟的价格。
• 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。