| 释义 |
catch someone up1British Succeed in reaching a person who is ahead of one: you go with Tess and I’ll catch you up...- ‘Whoops, forgot about the slowpoke guys,’ Esmée teased, ‘We'll catch you up, you go ahead and get tickets and such.’
- In a third of the time he's already caught me up and in the next few weeks he will zoom ahead.
- A submarine could barely make half this speed - hence the tactic of sailing ahead and anticipating the surface fleet catching you up.
2 ( be/get caught up in) Become involved in (something that one had not intended to become involved in): he had no desire to be caught up in political activities...- The Christmas shopping phenomena has begun and I really do not want to get caught up in that again.
- Any of us could have been in the shops on the street on Friday and been caught up in what happened.
- Did I intend to get caught up in some weird drama with a bunch of people I don't know?
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