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

• 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！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They jack up their prices in the tourist season.
  在旅游季节他们高抬价格。
• While at& T argues that the merger will expand cell phone service for customers, government officials are concerned that the deal will jack up cell phone costs.
  尽管AT&T认为，此次并购将扩大手机服务范围，但政府官员担心此项交易一旦达成，将会导致手机使用成本上升。
• 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。
• 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。
• Jack up the car and change the wheel with the punctured tire.
  用千斤顶把汽车抬起，把跑气的轮胎换掉。