work up

英[wɜːkʌp] 美[wɜːrkʌp]
  • 逐渐造成; 引起; 激发
  • up adv.向上;起来;上升;往上prep.向上adj.向上的;上行的n.上升v.上升;增加
  • work n.工作;职业;工作内容;职责;活计;工作所需的材料;工作地点;努力;工作成果;行为结果;作品v.工作;做事;使工作;争取;管理;运行;操作;奏效;产生…影响;造成;抽搐;逐渐移动[复]works:工厂;修建;机器部件;全套物品
Verb:
  1. form or accumulate steadily;

    "Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly"
    "Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border"

  2. develop;

    "we worked up an as of an appetite"

  3. bolster or strengthen;

    "We worked up courage"
    "build up confidence"
    "ramp up security in the airports"

  4. come up with;

    "His colleagues worked out his interesting idea"
    "We worked up an ad for our client"

1. I can't work up any enthusiasm for his idea.
我对他的想法怎么也热心不起来。

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2. She went for a long walk to work up an appetite.
她为了增加食欲散了很长时间的步。

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3. I'd dropped a hint about having an exhibition of his work up here.
我暗示要在这里举办一次他的作品展。

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4. Your creative talents can also be put to good use, if you can work up the energy.
如果你能激发自己的能量,你的创新才能也能派上好用场。

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5. Even if you are not prepared to work up a sweat three times a week, any activity is better than none.
即使你不准备1周流3次汗,任何活动总比没有要好。

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6. Once there, we are introduced to her fellow campers, Sally stands by them, holding my hand, horror in her eyes, trying to work up the courage to join a game of soccer.
一到那里,我们被介绍给她的同伴们。莎莉站在他们旁边,握着我的手,眼中充满恐惧,试图鼓起勇气参加一场足球比赛。

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7. I think you can work up the story well.
我想你能把故事组织得很好。

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8. Can you work up anger and regret and dismay over that?
你会因此而变得生气,懊悔和沮丧吗?

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9. Are you not doing your work up to the required standards?
工作达不到规定的标准吗?

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10. So let's work up to some code that does something with the XML.
我们就来编写一些代码对XML做点什么吧。

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11. One in five even speculate we will have to work up to the age of 75.
五分之一的人甚至怀疑我们将不得不工作到75岁,这对那些50岁的人来说也不是什么好消息。

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12. You may want to begin simply and then work up to more complex configurations.
可以从简单的开始,然后逐渐进行复杂的配置。

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13. You might start on the flats and work up to more demanding and difficult terrain.
你可以先在平路上练习,再慢慢挑战要求更高、难度更大的路面。

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14. Beginners should start with a tempo run of about 5 minutes and work up to about 20.
初学者应当从5分钟的门槛跑开始,慢慢提高到20分钟。

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15. This is a skill that can be learned, it just needs a little "detective" work up-front!
这是一个能够被学习的技能,它所需要的只是一点点在前锋位置的“侦查”工作。

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16. If you are even slightly musically-gifted, work up the courage and get on stage yourself.
如果你也有些许音乐天分,你也可以鼓起勇气,登台献艺。

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17. There is even a pinewood sauna, though you can work up just as much sweat by standing outside.
那儿甚至还有一个松木桑拿浴,不够你只要在露天站着就足够出那么多的汗了。

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18. But when Tom did finally work up the nerve to call Sara, her roommate told him she was in Santa Fe for the weekend.
但是,当汤姆最后鼓起勇气,给萨拉打了电话,她的室友告诉他,她正在圣达菲过周末。

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19. For six months I've been trying to work up the nerve to ask her to marry me, but I'm afraid all she'll do is laugh.
最近六个月来我一直想鼓起勇气开口向她求婚,但却老觉得难以启齿,因为我怕她会一笑了之。

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20. The editing examples that follow start with the simplest and most common constructs and work up to the more complex.
下面的编辑示例首先从最简单和最常见的构造开始,并逐步过渡到较复杂的构造。

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21. If I break you in, I'll be doing plenty of your work at first. Suppose you begin at thirty, an 'work up to the forty.
但他是熟手,你是生手,我得要教你,刚开头时还得干许多该你干的活儿,只给你三十,以后涨到四十。

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22. He brings his ideas back to his studio to work up into water colors and then oils, with which he just started to experiment.
他把思路带回工作室,加以整理后画成水彩画,然后再画成他当时刚刚开始尝试的油画。

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23. Planning: The hotel is on West Cliff, near both beach and downtown. Work up an appetite by walking along the town's magnificent beach.
推荐:酒店位于西崖,离海边、市中心都极近。沿着城镇的海边漫步,创造浪漫的时刻。

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24. The facility will gradually work up to full power over the next 12 months or so, but experiments are scheduled to run until around 2040.
在未来一年左右的时间里,该装置将逐步提升至满负荷运转,但是实验将按计划进行到2040年左右。

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25. Ren said he never saw Fang beating a worker, but added: "He was not a kind person.... Maybe if they didn't work up to a certain level, there would be no food."
任说他从没有看到方殴打工人,但他补充道:”此人绝非善类....如果工人们没有做到一定的任务量,就不会有饭吃“。

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26. Ren said he never saw Fang beating a worker, but added: "He was not a kind person.... Maybe if they didn't work up to a certain level, there would be no food."
任说他从没有看到方殴打工人,但他补充道:”此人绝非善类....如果工人们没有做到一定的任务量,就不会有饭吃“。

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    1. The speech stirred up a lot of excitement.
      那场演说引起很大的骚动。
    2. Exercise will make you work up an appetite.
      运动会引起你的食欲。
    3. That cannot get up an atom of sympathy for them.
      那并不能激发起人们对他们的丝毫同情。
    4. She needs someone to wake her up.
      她需要人激发她。