新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

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[ADJ, ADV, PREP, VERB]

    ADJ. 形容词
  • 1起床的

    If you are up, you are not in bed.

    双语例句

    例:

    Are you sure you should be up?

    你确定你该起床了吗?

    例:

    These days they were up at the crack of dawn.

    这些天他们在破晓时就起床。

    2(时间)到点的

    If a period of time is up, it has come to an end.

    近义词

    over

    双语例句

    例:

    The moment the half-hour was up, Brooks rose.

    半小时一到,布鲁克斯就起来了。

    3(计算机或计算机系统)工作的

    If a computer or computer system is up, it is working. Compare down

    双语例句

    例:

    The new system is up and ready to run.

    新系统工作了,可以开始运行了。

    ADV. 副词
  • 1向上地

    If a person or thing goes up, they move away from the ground or to a higher position.

    双语例句

    例:

    Finally, after an hour, I went up to Jeremy's room.

    一个小时后,我终于上楼去了杰里米的房间。

    例:

    Intense balls of flame rose up into the sky.

    炙热的火球冲上天空。

    2靠近顶端

    If a person or thing is up, they are near the top of something.

    双语例句

    例:

    a research station perched 4,000 metres up on the lip of the crater.

    位于海拔4000米,靠近火山口的一个研究站。

    3朝上

    You use up to indicate that you are looking or facing in a direction that is away from the ground or towards a higher level.

    双语例句

    例:

    Keep your head up, and look around you from time to time.

    你要抬起头来,不时地环顾四周。

    4起来

    If someone stands up, they move so that they are standing.

    双语例句

    例:

    He stood up and went to the window.

    他站了起来,走向窗户。

    5向上(尤指向北方或向高处) , 在(北方或高处)

    If you are travelling to a particular place, you can say that you are going up to that place, especially if you are going towards the north or to a higher level of land. If you are already in such a place, you can say that you are up there.

    双语例句

    例:

    I'll be up to see you tomorrow.

    我明天上来看你。

    例:

    He was living up North.

    他当时正住在北方。

    6

    If you go up to something or someone, you move to the place where they are and stop there.

    双语例句

    例:

    The girl ran the rest of the way across the street and up to the car.

    那个女孩穿过街道,跑完剩下的一段路,来到那辆车旁。

    例:

    On the way out a boy of about ten came up on roller skates.

    在出去的路上,一个大约十岁的男孩穿着旱冰鞋滑了过来。

    7增多 , 上涨

    If an amount of something goes up, it increases. If an amount of something is up, it has increased and is at a higher level than it was.

    双语例句

    例:

    The total budget went up almost $300 million.

    总预算几乎增加了3亿美元。

    例:

    Tourism is up, jobs are up, individual income is up.

    旅游火了,职位多了,个人收入增加了。

    PHRASE. 习语
  • up and down

    1上下地 , 来来回回

    If you move up and down somewhere, you move there repeatedly in one direction and then in the opposite direction.

    双语例句

    例:

    I used to jump up and down to keep warm.

    我过去常常上下跳动来保暖。

    例:

    I strolled up and down thoughtfully before calling a taxi.

    我来回踱步,思来想去后叫了一辆出租车。

  • up to

    1能胜任

    If you feel up to doing something, you are well enough to do it.

    双语例句

    例:

    Those patients who were up to it could move to the adjacent pool.

    身体状况允许的病人可以去隔壁的游泳池。

    例:

    His fellow directors were not up to running the business without him.

    没有他,其他董事管理不好这家企业。

    2捣鬼

    To be up to something means to be secretly doing something that you should not be doing.

    双语例句

    例:

    Why did you need a room unless you were up to something?

    除非你要捣什么鬼,不然为什么需要一个房间呢?

    例:

    They must have known what their father was up to.

    他们一定已经知道父亲暗地里在做什么。

    3是…的责任

    If you say that it is up to someone to do something, you mean that it is their responsibility to do it.

    双语例句

    例:

    It was up to him to make it right, no matter how long it took.

    不管需要花多长时间,把事情摆平是他的责任。

    例:

    I'm sure I'd have spotted him if it had been up to me.

    要是换了我,我肯定已经认出他了。

    4多达 , 高达

    You use up to to say how large something can be or what level it has reached.

    双语例句

    例:

    Up to twenty thousand students paid between five and six thousand dollars.

    多达2万名学生支付了5千到6千美元不等。

  • up until

    1直至

    Up until or up to are used to indicate the latest time at which something can happen, or the end of the period of time that you are referring to.

    双语例句

    例:

    Please feel free to call me any time up until 9:30 at night.

    晚上9:30之前随时都可以给我打电话。

  • up for

    1将被考虑

    If someone or something is up for election, review, or discussion, they are about to be considered.

    双语例句

    例:

    A third of the Senate and the entire House are up for re-election.

    参议院三分之一的席位和众议院所有席位都面临改选。

    2愿意做 , 急于做

    If you are up for something, you are willing or eager to do it.

    双语例句

    例:

    I'm starved. Who's up for pizza?

    我快饿死了。谁想吃比萨饼?

  • up against

    1面临(困境或困难)

    If you are up against something, you have a very difficult situation or problem to deal with.

    双语例句

    例:

    The chairwoman is up against the greatest challenge to her position.

    女主席正面临职位上的最大挑战。

  • up and about

    1已下床从事正常活动的

    If someone who has been in bed for some time, for example because they have been sick, is up and about, they are now out of bed and living their normal life.

    双语例句

    例:

    How are you Lennox? Good to see you up and about.

    你怎么样,伦诺克斯?真高兴看到你恢复正常活动了。

  • something is up

    1出问题

    If you say that something is up, you mean that something is wrong or that something worrying is happening.

    双语例句

    例:

    What is it then? Something's up, isn't it?

    那么这是怎么回事?出问题了,是不是?

  • What's up?

    1出了什么事?

    If you say to someone 'What's up?' or if you tell them what's up, you are asking them or telling them what is wrong or what is worrying them.

    双语例句

    例:

    'What's up?' I said to him. 'Just tired,' he answered.

    “出了什么事?”我问他。— “只是累了,”他答道。

    PREP. 介词
  • 1向上

    If a person or thing goes up something such as a slope, ladder, or chimney, they move away from the ground or to a higher position.

    双语例句

    例:

    They were climbing up a narrow mountain road.

    他们正沿着一条狭窄的山路往上爬。

    例:

    I ran up the stairs and saw Alison lying at the top.

    我跑上楼梯,看见艾莉森躺在那里。

    2靠近…顶端

    If a person or thing is up something such as a ladder or a mountain, they are near the top of it.

    双语例句

    例:

    He was up a ladder sawing off the tops of his apple trees.

    他正站在梯子顶部锯苹果树的树冠。

    3沿着

    If you go or look up something such as a road or river, you go or look along it. If you are up a road or river, you are somewhere along it.

    双语例句

    例:

    A line of tanks came up the road from the city.

    一排坦克由市里沿路开过来了。

    例:

    We leaned on the wooden rail of the bridge and looked up the river.

    我们靠在桥的木栏杆上,沿河望去。

    VERB. 动词
  • ups , upping , upped

    1[T 及物动词] 增加 , 提高

    If you up something such as the amount of money you are offering for something, you increase it.

    近义词

    increase

    双语例句

    例:

    He upped his offer for the company.

    他提高了对该公司的出价。

    例:

    Drug stores upped sales by 63 per cent.

    药店的销售额提高了63。

    2[I 不及物动词] 突然行动

    If you up and leave a place, you go away from it, often suddenly or unexpectedly.

    双语例句

    例:

    One day he just upped and left.

    有一天他突然离开了。