jack up

1. PHRASAL VERB 用千斤顶托起（汽车等）
   If you jack up a 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。
2. PHRASAL VERB 不合理地抬高，哄抬（价格）；大幅度增加（数量）
   To jack up the 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。

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。
3. 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。
4. Inflation has jacked up the rate of unemployment.
   通货膨胀导致了失业率的大幅攀升。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. When the economy overheated, the central bank was compelled to jack up interest rates higher than it would otherwise have had to. This attracted massive capital inflows – which, in turn, pushed up the real.
    随着经济开始过热，巴西央行只得把利率上调至本无必要调至的水平。这吸引大量热钱流入，反过来又推高了雷亚尔汇率。
13. 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！
14. 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。
15. Some stores jack up the price.
    有些商店抬高价格。
16. They jack up their prices in the tourist season.
    在旅游季节他们高抬价格。
17. Maybe they are going to jack up the price of oil.
    他们可能会抬高石油价格。
18. 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。
19. He has no intention to jack up the plan.
    他没有放弃这个计划的意思。
20. 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。
21. Make sure you've got the tools ready before you jack up the car.
    在用千斤顶把汽车托起之前，一定要把工具准备好。
22. 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。
23. Always jack up the car before inflating the tire so that the tube can distribute itself around the tire evenly.
    在充气前，通常应该用千斤顶顶起汽车，使内胎能够均匀地沿着轮胎的每一处扩充起来。
24. When the bearing should be replaced, the steel bracket is installed by fastening bars through the pipes, The bracket can be taken as the working plane to jack up the beams.
    为安装并固定钢牛腿千斤顶的工作平面提供了保证；同时也提出了其它可行的设计方案.以期为考虑支座更换的桥梁设计提供参考。
25. 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。
26. 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。
27. Then screw nut did not try to jack up the entire turret components and the weight, the role without friction whereabouts.
    这时螺母没有托住丝杆以及整个刀架部件的重量，由于摩擦阻力的作用而不下落。
28. We should jack up discipline among the servicemen.
    我们应加强服役人员的纪律性。
29. The ladle bottom cast by the building mould can not expand and jack up after being baked, and thereby the problem of the square brick to produce the gap is avoided.
    利用该砌筑模具浇注的钢包包底在烘烤后不会膨胀顶起，从而避免了方砖产生缝隙的问题。
30. 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。

verb

1. lift with a special device
   1. jack up the car so you can change the tire

   Synonym:    jack