jack up

基本解釋

Under the new rules, credit-card companies can't jack up interest rates on a whim.
在新法案規(guī)定下，信用卡公司不能憑著心血來潮隨意提高貸款利率。
I don't think we can jack up our prices on our books anymore, because people don't have much extra money to spend these days.
我不認為我們的書價還可以再提高，因為現(xiàn)在大家沒有太多閑錢可花了。
The price of solar power still has far to fall before it is cheaper than electricity generated from fossil fuels—even if governments jack up fossil-fuel prices to reflect the cost of carbon emissions.
即便政府出于對碳排放代價的反思提高石油價格，太陽能價格還需要降低許多才會比從化石燃料中產(chǎn)生的能源價格便宜。

The team will jack up prices again if it gets out of the first round.
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The first is that it will jack up inflation and so do more harm than good.
ECONOMIST: America’s economy
You can, if you concentrate and jack up the volume, pick up most of the dialogue.
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