| 单词 | wind up |
| 释义 | wind up 1. phrasal verb When you wind up an activity, you finish it or stop doing it. The President is about to wind up his visit to Somalia. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Winding up the debate, she said: 'It would immediately put up interest rates.' [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] 2. phrasal verb When someone winds up a business or other organization, they stop running it and close it down completely. [business] There was no alternative but to wind up the business. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 3. phrasal verb If you wind up in a particular place, situation, or state, you are in it at the end of a series of actions, events, or experiences, even though you did not originally intend to be. He could wind up in gaol. [VERB PARTICLE preposition/adverb] Little did I know that I would actually wind up being on the staff. [VERB PARTICLE verb-ing] Both partners of the marriage wound up unhappy. [V P adj/n] 4. phrasal verb When you wind up something such as the window of a car, you make it move upwards by turning a handle. He started winding the window up but I grabbed the door and opened it. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 5. phrasal verb If you wind someone up, you deliberately say things which annoy them. [British, informal] This woman really wound me up. She kept talking over me. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 6. phrasal verb If you wind someone up, you say untrue things in order to trick them. [British, informal] You're joking. Come on, you're winding me up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 7. See also wind2 [sense 3], wind-up, wound up See full dictionary entry for wind wind-up (waɪnd ʌp ) Word forms: wind-ups 1. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] A wind-up device is a mechanical device with a handle or key that you turn several times before you use it in order to make it work. ...an old-fashioned wind-up gramophone. 2. countable noun [usually singular] A wind-up is a joke or trick in which someone deliberately tells you something untrue in order to annoy you. [British, informal] At first I couldn't believe it. I thought it was a wind-up by one of my mates. [+ by] Synonyms: joke, gag [informal], lark, prank Translations: Chinese: 上发条的 Japanese: ねじ巻き式の |
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