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

• Maybe they are going to jack up the price of oil.
  他们可能会抬高石油价格。
• Workers often jack up a car to change a tyre.
  工人经常用起重机架起汽车换轮胎。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Some major publishers jack up the price libraries pay for e-books compared to what they charge the public.
  相较于公开售价，一些大出版商有意抬高图书馆购买电子书的价格。
• 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。
• He has no intention to jack up the plan.
  他没有放弃这个计划的意思。
• 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。
• 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。