| 释义 |
warm something up (or US over)1Reheat previously cooked food: can you warm the soup up for me?...- Add the remaining chickpeas, and warm the soup over medium heat.
- Make the sponge by warming the milk over low heat in a small saucepan until it's tepid.
- In a small saucepan, warm the oil over low heat.
2Entertain an audience so as to make them more receptive to the main act: on stage, Miles was warming up the crowd...- So Dalrymple warmed the audience up at the Oxford-Bookstore Gallery with a few Comic Anecdotes.
- Without a studio audience to warm things up, Vaughan's attempts to jolly things along fall flat to the sounds of nervous giggles from the crew.
- The host for the evening, MC Silky was great, making everyone feel welcome and relaxed, playing silly songs on his guitar and telling good jokes to warm the audience up.
Synonyms enliven, liven (up), stimulate, animate, rouse, put some life into, stir (up), move, excite, cheer up informal get going See parent entry: warm |