| 单词 | build up |
| 释义 | build up 1. phrasal verb If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it. The regime built up the largest army in Africa. [VERB PARTICLE noun] The collection has been built up over the last seventeen years. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] Slowly a thick layer of fat builds up on the pan's surface. [VERB PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If you build someone up, you help them to feel stronger or more confident, especially when they have had a bad experience or have been ill. Build her up with kindness and a sympathetic ear. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Dr. Johnson and I have been trying to build him up physically. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 3. phrasal verb If you build someone or something up, you make them seem important or exciting, for example by talking about them a lot. The media will report on it and the tabloids will build it up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Historians built him up as the champion of parliament. [V n P + as] I'd built him up in my head as being the love of my life. [V n P as n/-ing] 4. See also build [sense 6], build [sense 8], build-up, built-up See full dictionary entry for build build-up also buildup also build up Word forms: build-ups 1. countable noun [usually singular] A build-up is a gradual increase in something. There has been a build-up of troops on both sides of the border. [+ of] The disease can also cause a build up of pressure in the inner ear leading to severe earache. [+ of] Synonyms: accumulation, amassing, accretion 2. countable noun [usually singular] The build-up to an event is the way that journalists, advertisers, or other people talk about it a lot in the period of time immediately before it, and try to make it seem important and exciting. We should wait at least until winter before we start the build-up to Christmas. The exams came, almost an anti-climax after the build-up that the students had given them. Translations: Chinese: 逐渐增加 Japanese: 増強 |
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