prop
prop 英 [prɒp] 美 [prɑp]
n. 支柱，支撑物；支持者；道具；（橄榄球中的）支柱前锋 vt. 支撑，支持，维持；使倚靠在某物上
进行时:propping 过去式:propped 过去分词:propped 第三人称单数:props 名词复数:props
- A prop is something you use as a support, like a broom that serves as a prop to hold a door open. A prop is also something that goes on stage, like a garbage can in a Beckett play.
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- n. 支柱，支撑物；支持者；道具；（橄榄球中的）支柱前锋
- vt. 支撑，支持，维持；使倚靠在某物上
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1. That prop will go.
这一支柱将会消逝。
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2. Today, around half of the gross labor costs in France go to prop up the French welfare state, while it is just 28% in neighboring Germany, according to MEDEF, France's largest union of employers.
据法国最大的雇主协会MEDEF的数据显示，当今法国的总劳动成本有约一半用于支撑法国的福利体系，而与其相邻的德国这一比例仅为28%。
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3. Then she’d bring back a prop man or whoever to her tent.
然后她会带回来一个道具男或别的人去她的帐蓬。
- prop (n.1) "support," mid-15c., from Middle Dutch proppe "vine prop, support," of unknown origin. Probably related to Old High German pfropfo, German pfropfen "to prop," perhaps from Latin propago "a set, layer of a plant" (see propagation). Irish propa, Gaelic prop are from English.
- prop (n.2) "object used in a play," 1898, from props (1841), shortened form of properties (which was in theatrical use from early 15c.). Props as slang shortening for proper respects (or something similar) appeared c. 1999.
- prop (n.3) short for propeller, 1914.
- prop (v.) "to support," mid-15c., probably from prop (n.1) or a related verb in Dutch. Related: Propped; propping.
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