Prop

(noun.) a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling.

哈利整理

• The big men from Machiavelli through Rousseau to Karl Marx brought history, logic, science and philosophy to prop up and strengthen their deepest desires. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• 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. 科学通论.
• 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. 科学通论.
• While one fellow creature remains to whom aid can be afforded, stay by and prop your shattered, falling engine! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• 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. 维莱特.
• 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. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• 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. 简·爱.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Simmons sat propped up by the pillows and smoked. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Holmes propped it against the cruet-stand and read it while he ate. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• She came to him as he lay propped up in the library. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He was propped up on a bed-rest, and always had his gold-headed stick lying by him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The bed was in the centre of the room, and in it, propped up with pillows, was the owner of the house. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Women, after all, gentlemen,' said the enthusiastic Mr. Snodgrass, 'are the great props and comforts of our existence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• His judgment, however, wanted surgical props; it was rickety. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Ye'll need propping. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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