新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

build-up

[NOUN]

又拼作 buildup  
又拼作 build up  
    NOUN. 名词
  • build-ups

    1[C 可数名词] 逐渐增加

    A build-up is a gradual increase in something.

    双语例句

    例:

    There has been a build-up of troops on both sides of the border.

    边境两边都在增加兵力。

    2[C 可数名词] 大肆宣传

    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.

    双语例句

    例:

    The exams came, almost an anticlimax after the build-up that the students had given them.

    在学生们一番大造声势之后,随之而来的考试却出乎意料地平淡。