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单词 top-up
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top-upn.

Etymology: < the verbal phrase top v.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtop-up.
An addition; that which serves to complete an amount or a number; a filling up to the top of something already partly full (esp. a glass of alcoholic drink). Frequently attributive.
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1967 N. Freeling Strike Out 55 Fifty children that already had their top-up shots [against polio] in February.
1968 J. Lock Lady Policeman xvi. 138 Cypriots..predominated, then a fair sprinkling of Italians, with a top-up of every nationality under the sun.
1971 A. Morice Death of Gay Dog vii. 85 ‘Time for a top-up.’ ‘No more, thank you.’
1977 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 70 160/2 Post-operative analgesia occurs for a few hours after short operations, but is otherwise much as after other methods, unless ‘top-up’ doses are given through a catheter.
1978 A. C. Baines in J. M. Thomson Future of Early Music in Britain 23 The next stage should be..to..get the Associated Board to accept this instrument—but excluding the crumhorns etc. save perhaps as optional top-ups.
1983 Truckin' Life Aug. 66/1 We..were looking for some improvement in consumption at the top-up point, the Ampol station.
1984 Times 13 July 2/5 Moneylenders..offer ‘top-up’ loans..before the original debt has been settled.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

top-upadv.

Etymology: < top n.1 + up adv.2
Obsolete. rare.
Up to the top, to the brim.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adverb] > to the brim
top-up1581
brimmingly1826
brimming1848
brimfully1854
abrim1858
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades iii. 52 With good wine..of Goate a ful great hide They fild top vp.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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