单词 | knock up |
释义 | knock up 1. a. (1) < decided to knock up a tennis match > : prepare quickly or without much care < knock up a meal for us — Irwin Shaw > (2) < knocked up an acquaintance with a few people > b. < two small wooden buildings, casually knocked up — Josephine Pinckney > c. 2. Britain 3. a. < hurried too fast and it knocked me up — G.M.Hopkins > b. (1) < too much food and idleness had knocked them up > (2) < unfair competition had knocked up the once flourishing business > c. < got pretty badly knocked up > < if I'm killed over there — that isn't likely, I'm more of the damned sort that gets knocked up — Ellen Glasgow > 4. a. < knocking up a good score > b. Britain 5. slang < no girls get married around here till they're knocked up — Ernest Hemingway > 6. < felt rather knocked up by the news > 7. a. Britain b. intransitive verb 1. < a few of the beasts had knocked up and had to be abandoned — I.L.Idriess > 2. < knocked up against formidable difficulties > < happened to knock up against an old friend > 3. |
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