| 单词 | up |
| 释义 | up I. 1. a. (1) < pushes the boy up to the top of the fence so he can see > < the oil shoots up 200 feet > < has breakfast brought up to her bedroom > < ordered up searchlights to stab the sky — Noel Houston > — often used as an intensive < lift up your eyes > < raised up the ceiling a few feet > — often used in commands or exclamations calling for upward motion < hands up > < up periscope — E.L.Beach > — formerly used in combination with a verb, especially an auxiliary < we will, fair Queen, up to the mountain's top — Shakespeare > (2) < digs up arrowheads in his backyard > < the fish swim up for crumbs > (3) < sees the moon come up > (4) < fishermen pulling boats up onto a beach > specifically < hits the ball well up > (5) < must time everything exactly — up with the flood tide, arriving … precisely at slack water — C.S.Forester > (6) < helps up a man who has fallen > < draws himself up to his full height > specifically < stayed up all night long > — sometimes used in commands or exclamations < up, up, my friend, and quit your books — William Wordsworth > b. < pulls up all the tulips > c. archaic < have broken up my packet again to insert this letter — Edmund Verney > d. < turns the ace of spades up > 2. a. < up in the mountains > < brings in a mirror-sharp picture 35,000 feet up — advt > < wants to see her name up in lights > < only a kid … with that flaming hair of hers just up — Mary Deasy > < the ball is up on the green > b. < camps up above the rapids > c. < standing up in front of a judge — Kay Boyle > 3. a. < speak up so that she can hear > < turns up the radio too loud > b. < turns up the lamp on the desk > 4. a. < on his way up as a junior member of a law firm — Sara H. Hay > < pressure on manufacturers to keep quality up — Current Biography > < keeps him up out of sentimental estheticism — Clive Bell > — sometimes used in exclamations < up the workers — Liam O'Flaherty > b. < grew up in the city > c. < brace up and keep going > < only buoyed up by the hope … of seeing a junk — Osbert Lancaster > — sometimes used in commands or exclamations d. (1) < stirs up crowds > < the type that boiled up inside sometimes — E.V.Roberts > (2) — used as a function word usually in combination with it to indicate marked or intense activity < singing and laughing it up with the boys — Arthur Godfrey > e. < an effort to bring military plane production up — Current Biography > < rents would move up or down — S.L.Payne > f. < transposes the melody up a fifth > < singing easily up above high C > g. < indefatigable labors from youth up — D.S. & Jessie K. Jordan > < boys from fourth grade up — Gladys Skelley > < rent from $50 up — Warner Olivier > < highly alert during the night and up through dawn — P.W.Thompson > < from early childhood up until the age of 20 > h. < talks up all the new styles > < the quality of the beef is what counts, and the brown sugar is the touch to point it up — C.H.Baker > i. < a fish that puffs itself up > < the ingenious folly of pumping up a poem till it means everything — N.E.Nelson > 5. a. < drawings … worked up in the office by several draftsmen — F.J.Mather > < saloons went up rapidly — D.D.Martin > < a skillful building up of suspense — C.W.Shumaker > < the money will turn up somewhere > < stokes the fire to get steam up > b. < put the problem squarely and finally up to the states and cities whose immediate concern it is — F.E.Johnson > < senators come up for reelection — T.R.Ybarra > < the unmanageable gelding went up for raffle — Time > c. < comes up twice in the same inning > 6. a. < yielded himself up a prisoner — Maria Edgeworth > b. < their licenses can be taken up and returned to authorities in their own state — Birmingham (Ala.) News > c. 7. a. < counts up all the factors > < ran up a big bill > < sums up the whole situation > b. (1) < eats up the cake > < finds that the land he is interested in is leased up — J.L.Harnon > < charge it up to experience > — often used as a function word for emphasis with little addition of meaning < might wake even the bomber boys up — J.G.Cozzens > < the pipe is stopped up with dirt > < the black water had swallowed me up — O.S.J.Gogarty > < to fright the animals and to kill them up — Shakespeare > (2) < show houses were being bought up by the moving picture interests — C.F.Wittke > < clean up the house > < softening up the enemy with artillery before making the final attack > — often used as a function word for emphasis < the plane's fueling up — Kay Boyle > < the roads empty magically while the drivers chow up — Barrett McGurn > 8. a. < lays up supplies for the winter > < putting up preserves > b. < buttoned himself up — John Buchan > < wrapped up in a dressing gown — H.A.L.Craig > < a fine time to pot up bulbs for forcing — Catalog: Holland Bulb Gardens > < cork the bottle up > < have locked up and gone home — Brooks Atkinson > c. < sews up the rip > < joins up with his friends > d. < patched up his old pants > < a rather battered sign … we ought to paint it up — Holiday > 9. a. < comes driving up in a new car > < an avenue of trees leads up to the house > b. (1) chiefly Britain < went up to London as professor of surgery — Harvey Graham > (2) (3) < peach cultivation is slowly extending up from the south — American Guide Series: Arkansas > (4) < your rapid pen moved up and down — Edna S.V.Millay > (5) < went up to the farm for a rest > (6) < offended, walks up — W.S.Gilbert > (7) < went up in the 1920's … for 20 years — D.W.Maurer > c. < hold their positions up in the trenches > d. < his horse was fourth but then came up and won > < may be traced up to the first beginnings of Greek speculation — Walter Pater > 10. < break up the road before widening it > < tears up newspapers > — often used as a function word for emphasis < the country was divided up into two spheres of interest — A.T.Bouscaren > 11. a. b. < didn't wait for recognition but spoke right up > < answers up to every question > 12. a. < on the next hole he shot a birdie three to go two up — Time > < the intellectual's game of being one up on the prevailing interpretation — W.L.Miller > b. < the score is 15 up > 13. a. < when circulars are ordered in large quantities, it is common to print them two up or four up — Daniel Melcher & Nancy Larrick > — compare gang I 3a(2) b. < put all of these words up > c. II. 1. a. < the sun is still up > b. (1) (2) chiefly Britain < the chancellor of the exchequer's up — Charles Dickens > c. < is up every morning at six > < a man who was just up from an attack of the measles — A.W.Long > < was up all last night — Kay Boyle > d. < the river is dangerously up > e. < all the windows are up > < with the thumbscrew in the up position — H.G.Armstrong > < her defenses were up — Ethel Wilson > f. < the two temporary bridges are up — Kay Boyle > g. (1) (2) < ordered two eggs up > h. < with a new jockey up > < is up on a long shot — Walter Bernstein > i. < the corn is up now > j. < the hay is up, and the turnips thinned — Padraic Fallon > k. (1) < began to unload poles and warning notices of “Road Up” — Adrian Bell > (2) < finds the track up for several hundred feet > l. < the up escalator > < looked at him with an up glance > m. (1) < all genus names are up > (2) < the style of this magazine is up > n. < a new up hairdo, a little fancy for daytime — Budd Schulberg > 2. a. (1) < they say the tribes are up — John Masefield > < their fighting blood was up — S.H.Adams > (2) < let's be up and doing > b. < in his up periods he joked and talked — Cyril Connolly > c. < bank loans were up six percent — Harvey Walker > < Sunday school enrollment is up — Ben Bradford > < fever was down, appetite was up — G.W.Gray b. 1886 > d. (1) < haunts the sandbar now and growls when the wind is up — Laurence Critchell > < the lights in the drawing room on the first floor … were up — Margery Allingham > (2) < the ship will sail as soon as steam is up > < I'll make a pot of tea. The fire is just up — Katharine Shattuck > e. < a ship now up for the tropics > f. < took a sip to see if the champagne was still up > g. < was up to any party of pleasure — W.M.Thackeray > specifically < players will be up for the conference opponents and traditional rivals — H.O.Crisler > h. (1) < went out to see what was up — Francis Shean > < begins to realize something is up — Anne Brooks > (2) < there was something up with her voice — Richard Llewellyn > 3. a. < the ringing of a bell in the classroom means that the hour is up — Ralph Linton > < his term of duty is nearly up — A.H.Townsend > < the game is up at 15 points > b. Britain < Parliament was up — C.E.Robinson > c. < the game's all up with him > < the hunt was now fairly up and a crowd nearly 50 strong was racing down the wharf after them — Max Peacock > d. < the editorial is all up > 4. a. < at graduation he was well up in his class > < can almost tell which industries are down and which are up, from the gifts — Sanford Brown > < choose management material not from men up from the bench but from young college-trained technicians — Time > b. < his horse is well up > c. archaic d. < there were no dragging ends in the rear … nobody complaining that food or ammunition was not up — Everybody's Magazine > — often used with to or with < was well up to the average of her class — F.W.Crofts > < did not feel quite up to par and proposed to rest — Alexander MacDonald > < discovers he is up with the best of them > e. < lived until she was up in the eighties > f. (1) < his friends are up on the very latest things in the arts — Geoffrey Gorer > — also used with in or to < well up in these things — J.B.Smyth > (2) < said he was up on his homework > g. < in spite of being set four tricks they were still up > < was three up on the second hole > < black is a pawn up > h. < rehashing … the rumors of names up for rotation — T.H.Phillips > i. < queens up > 5. a. (1) < caught the up train to town > < a very small fraction of the up traffic — Werner Mangold > (2) < checked his suitcase on the up side of the station > b. chiefly Britain (1) (2) < was up … with my wife as an undergraduate — W.B.Millen > < was still the depth of the vacation, and there were only a few scholars up — C.P.Snow > c. < the tiller is up > d. < a strong up wind > e. 6. a. (1) < the bill is now up before Congress > < the question is now up to the full cabinet and a decision is expected — H.T.Simmons > (2) < is up for reelection — Elmer Davis > < is now up for sale — S.P.B.Mais > < a labor contract is up for negotiation — Securities Outlook > specifically < is up for rape — Charles Oldfather > b. < many thousands of dollars were up on the match > • - up against - up against it - up to III. intransitive verb 1. < he up and married a show girl — Michael Mackay > < the jackass upped and died — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > < no sooner is a girl qualified to be a doctor than she ups with some white-jacketed junior bandage wrapper and is off with him to a suburban villa — R.P.Lister > 2. 3. 4. < upped with a shotgun and opened some rain holes in the cloth top — F.B.Gipson > transitive verb 1. 2. a. < ups flukes and goes down again — W.J.Hopkins > < upped sail — John Buchan > b. (1) < upped the fare from 10 cents to 15 cents a ride — Gus Tyler > < cattle growers upped meat production — New York Times > (2) < has been upped to general merchandising director — Bennett Cerf > (3) 3. IV. 1. a. < climbing up a tree > < building a cogwheel railway up the mountain — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > < the heat which is normally wasted up the chimney — Ronald Robson > < a child can be shifted horizontally as he progresses up the school — G.B.Jeffery > < it might be snowing up the mountain — J.M.Brinnin > b. < go up garret and play — B.F.Taylor > < asked was there anything up attic — Robert Frost > 2. < a journey up one of the valleys — L.D.Stamp > as a. < a steamer groping her way up river — Cicely F. Smith > < these fish winter up the river — Biological Abstracts > b. < walks up the walk — Edna S.V.Millay > < advanced up the room — J.G.Cozzens > < will find himself trapped up a dead end — H.A.Burr > c. < traveling up the country > < up country in the coffee and cotton plantations … life is rougher — William Tate > d. < lives a few miles up the coast > < withdrew his army up the island — H.E.Scudder > — often used in combination with a following noun to form adjectives and adverbs < an auction of upcounty farm land — Lonnie Coleman > < the water would then flow updip through the more porous strata — C.G.Lalicker > 3. < up the wind > 4. a. < took his arm and they began to walk together up the street — William Fay > b. < as familiar as the man who lives up the street > V. 1. < the savor of the book lies in … figures in the crowd, in the downs as well as the ups — Ernestine Evans > 2. 3. < unions always thrive most in times of business ups or business downs — Kiplinger Washington Letter > < has had downs as well as ups since he became … commander of the northern expeditionary forces — New Republic > 4. • - in two ups - on the up VI. VII. < up quark > — compare down herein VIII. 1. 2. |
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