| 单词 | blow up |
| 释义 | blow up 1. phrasal verb B1 If someone blows something up or if it blows up, it is destroyed by an explosion. He was jailed for 45 years for trying to blow up a plane. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Their boat blew up as they slept. [VERB PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb B2 If you blow up something such as a balloon or a tyre, you fill it with air. Other than blowing up a tyre I hadn't done any car maintenance. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 3. phrasal verb If a wind or a storm blows up, the weather becomes very windy or stormy. A storm blew up over the mountains. [VERB PARTICLE] 4. phrasal verb If you blow up at someone, you lose your temper and shout at them. [informal] I'm sorry I blew up at you. [VERB PARTICLE + at] When Myra told Karp she'd expose his past, he blew up. [VERB PARTICLE] 5. phrasal verb If someone blows an incident up or if it blows up, it is made to seem more serious or important than it really is. Newspapers blew up the story. [VERB PARTICLE noun] The media may be blowing it up out of proportion. [VERB noun PARTICLE] The scandal blew up into a major political furore. [VERB PARTICLE preposition/adverb] 6. phrasal verb If a photographic image is blown up, a large copy is made of it. The image is blown up on a large screen. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] ...two blown up photos of Paddy. [VERB-ed PARTICLE] 7. See also blow-up See full dictionary entry for blow blow-up also blowup Word forms: blow-ups 1. countable noun A blow-up is a photograph or picture that has been made bigger. [informal] ...a grainy blowup obviously taken with a telephoto lens in bad light. ...blow-ups of photographs she found on the internet. 2. countable noun A blow-up is a sudden fierce argument. [informal] He and Cohen appeared headed for a major blowup. Translations: Chinese: 爆炸 Japanese: 爆破する |
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