| 单词 | hold up |
| 释义 | hold up 1. phrasal verb B1+ If you hold up your hand or something you have in your hand, you move it upwards into a particular position and keep it there. She held up her hand stiffly. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Hold it up so that we can see it. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb B2 If one thing holds up another, it is placed under the other thing in order to support it and prevent it from falling. Mills have iron pillars all over the place holding up the roof. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Her legs wouldn't hold her up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb B2 To hold up a person or process means to make them late or delay them. Why were you holding everyone up? [VERB noun PARTICLE] Continuing violence could hold up progress towards reform. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 4. phrasal verb If someone holds up a place such as a bank or a shop, they point a weapon at someone there to make them give them money or valuable goods. A thief ran off with hundreds of pounds yesterday after holding up a petrol station. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 5. phrasal verb If you hold someone up, or if you hold up something such as their behaviour, you make their behaviour known to other people, so that they can criticize or praise it. She said the picture that had appeared in a Sunday newspaper had held her up to ridicule. [V n P to n] He had always been held up as an example to the younger ones. [be V-ed P + as] 6. phrasal verb If something such as a type of business holds up in difficult conditions, it stays in a reasonably good state. Children's wear is one area that is holding up well in the recession. [VERB PARTICLE] 7. phrasal verb If an argument or theory holds up, it is true or valid, even after close examination. I'm not sure if the argument holds up, but it's stimulating. [VERB PARTICLE] 8. See also hold-up See full dictionary entry for hold hold-up also holdup Word forms: hold-ups 1. countable noun A hold-up is a situation in which someone is threatened with a weapon in order to make them hand over money or valuables. 2. countable noun A hold-up is something which causes a delay. 3. countable noun A hold-up is the stopping or very slow movement of traffic, sometimes caused by an accident which happened earlier. They arrived late due to a motorway hold-up. Synonyms: delay, wait, hitch, trouble Translations: Chinese: 阻碍 Japanese: 持ちこたえる |
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