| 单词 | gear up |
| 释义 | gear up (once / 8743 pages) v WORD FAMILY gear up: geared up, gearing up, gears up USAGE EXAMPLESA bipartisan collection of U.S. lawmakers is gearing up to expand CFIUS’s legal mandate, in part to demand greater access by U.S. investors into China. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Hospitals and doctors in dozens of communities are already gearing up. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) France’s National Front and the Netherlands’ Party for Freedom are gearing up for their countries’ elections next year using rhetoric largely condemning immigration and Islam. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) v make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc Syn|Hypo|Hyper fix, prepare, ready, set, set up socialise, socialize prepare for social life providetake measures in preparation for cramprepare (students) hastily for an impending exam preconditionput into the required condition beforehand fixkill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study mountfix onto a backing, setting, or support lay out, set, set upget ready for a particular purpose or event winterise, winterizeprepare for winter summerise, summerizeprepare for summer primeinsert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing crop, cultivate, workprepare for crops brace, poiseprepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult overcrop, overcultivateto exhaust by excessive cultivation nerve, steelget ready for something difficult or unpleasant alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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