单词 | bring up |
释义 | bring up 1. phrasal verb B1 When someone brings up a child, they look after it until it is an adult. If someone has been brought up in a certain place or with certain attitudes, they grew up in that place or were taught those attitudes when they were growing up. She brought up four children. [VERB PARTICLE noun] His grandmother and his father brought him up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] He was brought up in North Yorkshire. [be V-ed P prep/adv] We'd been brought up to think that borrowing money was bad. [be V-ed P to-inf] I was brought up a Methodist. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE noun] 2. phrasal verb B2 If you bring up a particular subject, you introduce it into a discussion or conversation. He brought up a subject rarely raised during the course of this campaign. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Why are you bringing it up now? [VERB noun PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for bring If someone brings up food or wind, food or air is forced up from their stomach through their mouth. It's hard for the baby to bring up wind. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Translations: Chinese: 培养 Japanese: 育てる |
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