| 单词 | warm up |
| 释义 | warm up 1. phrasal verb B2 If you warm something up or if it warms up, it gets hotter. He blew on his hands to warm them up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] All that she would have to do was warm up the pudding. [VERB PARTICLE noun] The weather had warmed up. [VERB PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb B2 If you warm up for an event such as a race, you prepare yourself for it by doing exercises or by practising just before it starts. In an hour the drivers will be warming up for the main event. [VERB PARTICLE] Carl slipped a disc in his back while warming up. [VERB PARTICLE] 3. See also warm-up 4. phrasal verb When a machine or engine warms up or someone warms it up, it becomes ready for use a little while after being switched on or started. He waited for his car to warm up. [VERB PARTICLE] We spent a frustrating five minutes while the pilot warmed up the engines. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 5. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for warm If a comedian or speaker warms up an audience or the audience warms up, the audience is prepared for the main show or speaker by being told jokes, so that they are in a good mood. They would always come out and warm up the audience. [VERB PARTICLE noun] The crowd began to warm up. [VERB PARTICLE] warm-up Word forms: warm-ups countable noun [usually singular, NOUN noun] A warm-up is something that prepares you for an activity or event, usually because it is a short practice or example of what the activity or event will involve. The exercises can be fun and a good warm-up for the latter part of the programme. [+ for] The criticism was merely a warm-up for what is being prepared for the finance minister. [+ for] In a warm-up game for the World Cup, Uruguay have beaten England. Collocations: warm-up act All that, though, will be a warm-up act for what promises to be two noholds-barred contests this week. Times, Sunday Times Normally, he says, there would be a warm-up act, someone to crack a few jokes. Times, Sunday Times It doesn't feel much like a winning message: more a warm-up act. Times, Sunday Times Is it the same tracks being used, as a warm-up act, by an emotional rollercoaster? Times, Sunday Times All of them just a warm-up act for the sentence that follows. Times, Sunday Times He insists on taking his team through a ten-minute warm-up drill before kick-off to make sure they are fully prepared. The Sun Temperatures are forecast to be around freezing near the start and finish, making warm-up drills on the outfield virtually impossible. Times, Sunday Times Two teams were on the ice doing warm-up drills. Globe and Mail Warm-up drills - so often a revealing piece of theatre - became original and energetic and involved more cones than a motorway road works. Times, Sunday Times In the early days of basketball, dunking was considered ungentlemanly, and was rarely used outside of practice or warm-up drills. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Down at the warm-up track, she has had rivals pointing, staring and gossiping. Times, Sunday Times She got to the warm-up track for the 800 with 20 minutes to go. Times, Sunday Times He also wanted legacy chiefs to guarantee a warm-up track would be built rather than making it the responsibility of the successful bidder. Times, Sunday Times At the warm-up track, runners pointed and stared at her. Times, Sunday Times The stadium's warm-up track would remain for daily public use. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 热身 Japanese: 暖まる |
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