单词 | show up |
释义 | show up 1. phrasal verb B2 If something shows up or if something shows it up, it can be clearly seen or noticed. You may have some strange disease that may not show up for 10 or 15 years. [VERB PARTICLE] The orange tip shows up well against most backgrounds. [VERB PARTICLE] ...a telescope so powerful that it can show up galaxies billions of light years away. [VERB PARTICLE noun] There have been four hundred escapes this year, showing up the lack of security. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] 2. phrasal verb If someone or something shows you up, they make you feel embarrassed or ashamed of them. He wanted to teach her a lesson for showing him up in front of Leonov. [VERB noun PARTICLE] She kept saying I ought to try some, but I wasn't going to show myself up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] We expected every drawing exercise to show us up as hopeless artists. [V n P as n] 3. show [sense 12]verb See full dictionary entry for show If a person you are expecting to meet does not show, they do not arrive at the place where you expect to meet them. [mainly US] There was always a chance he wouldn't show. [VERB] Synonyms: turn up, come, appear, arrive Translations: Chinese: 露面 Japanese: 現れる |
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