单词 | step up |
释义 | step up 1. phrasal verb If you step up something, you increase it or increase its intensity. He urged donors to step up their efforts to send aid to the region. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Security is being stepped up to deal with the increase in violence. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] There are reports of stepped-up fighting at the border. [VERB-ed PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for step If you say that someone should step up, you mean that they should start to take responsibility for something. Someone needs to step up and point that out. [VERB PARTICLE] |
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