drive up

基本解释

But higher wages drive up the costs of production, leading to higher prices.
但是，提供工资会驱动生产成本的上涨，导致更高的物价。
All those investment bankers drive up property prices in London, for sure, but again you need more than excess demand in one region to produce a nationwide 10-year boom.
那些投资银行家推动了伦敦房价的上涨，这一点毫无疑问，但要产生长达10年的全国性（房地产）繁荣，你需要的就不只是一个地区的需求过剩了。
Privy to superior information, banks can charge hefty fees and drive up their own profits at the expense of clients who are induced to take on risks they don’t fully understand—a form of rent seeking.
由于信息不对称，银行可以收取大额的费用，并通过客户支付费用抬高他们自己的收益，而客户在完全不知情的情况下被诱导而承担风险——这是一种寻租形式。

"By imposing a tax on every American who drives a car or flips on a light switch, this plan will drive up the prices for food, gasoline and electricity,".
It's annoying because your brains are wired up so that that baby cry is going to drive you up the wall.
它干扰到了，因为大脑接到信号,孩子哭是向你发出信号。
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We're talking about like, if you didn't, even if you had all your data on your computer backed up on hard drive,
如果你没有将你电脑里的数据备份到硬盘里，
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During a credit expansion asset values become inflated, and credit-fueled spending tends to drive up corporate profitability.
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