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双语例句

• The slowdown is a matter of international concern, with Chinese house construction driving demand for commodities and propping up growth in the sputtering global economy.
  中国楼市放缓引起了国际关注，这是因为中国住房建设驱动着大宗商品需求，在全球经济踉跄之时支撑增长。
• Bankruptcy also beats the government's propping up the auto makers with hopes that the economy will improve.
  破产也打击了政府希望通过经济改善支撑汽车制造商的努力。
• Housing prices are still falling, but housing costs are propping up a key inflation index.
  住房价格仍在下降，但住房成本却使一项重要的通货膨胀指数没有降下来。
• You can usually find Jack propping up the bar at his local.
  你常常可以看见杰克频繁出没于他居住的那家酒店。
• China has become an increasingly important driver of the gold price, with large purchases propping up prices late last year as western investors were selling.
  中国已成为左右金价的一大因素，重要性日益上升。去年底，在西方投资者纷纷减持之际，来自中国的大量买盘对金价形成了支撑。
• Many younger Chinese must find it embarrassing that Beijing is propping up such an odious regime.
  中国许多年轻人肯定对北京方面扶持这样一个可恶的政权感到难堪。
• In Japan it is pensioners who are propping up consumption as they spend their hard-earned savings on things such as package tours, convenience food and medical care.
  在日本，退休老人将来之不易的积蓄花在跟团游、方便食品和医疗等项目上，支撑起该国消费的正是这群人。
• ABC was left behind by that reform because its problems were more serious and because it played such an important role in propping up China's rural economy.
  农行在改革中一直处于落后位置，因为它的问题更严重，而且它在支撑中国农村经济方面扮演着十分重要的角色。
• The European Central Bank, which has been propping up Italian debt on the markets since August, received similar commitments in the past.
  欧洲央行（ecb）自8月就开始在市场上支撑意大利国债，而欧洲央行在过去就得到过类似的承诺。
• Short-term interest rates fell to historic lows, propping up consumer spending, but also fuelling the housing bubble and sowing the seeds of today's upheaval.
  短期利率降到历史低位，支撑消费支出，但也刺激了房地产市场的泡沫，为今天的巨变埋下了种子。