work up

英 [wɜːk ʌp]

美 [wɜːrk ʌp]

使（自己）心烦意乱（或气愤）; 激发（热情）; 鼓起（勇气）; 使自己出（汗）; 激起（食欲）; 准备，撰写（文章等）

柯林斯词典

• See also:She worked herself up into a bit of a state...Don't just lie there working yourself up, do something about it.worked up
• PHRASAL VERB 激发(热情）;鼓起（勇气)
  If youwork upthe enthusiasm or courage to do something, you succeed in making yourself feel it.
  1. Your creative talents can also be put to good use, if you can work up the energy...
     如果你能让自己精力充沛起来，你的创作才能也能得到很好的发挥。
  2. Malcolm worked up the nerve to ask Grandma Rose for some help.
     马尔科姆鼓起勇气请罗丝奶奶帮点忙。
• PHRASAL VERB 使自己出(汗);激起(食欲)
  If youwork upa sweat or an appetite, you make yourself sweaty or hungry by doing exercise or hard work.
  1. You can really work up a sweat doing housework...
     做家务真的会让人大汗淋漓。
  2. It was around seven when I finished at the library. I wasn't hungry, but I'd worked up a thirst.
     我从图书馆出来时大约是7点。我不饿，但是觉得口渴。
• PHRASAL VERB 准备，撰写(文章等)
  If youwork upsomething such as a piece of writing, you spend time and effort preparing it.
  1. I sketched the layout of a prototype store and worked up a business plan...
     我画出店的布局草图，拟订了一份商业计划。
  2. They asked me to work up some sample drawings and bring them down.
     他们请我画一些样图带过去。

英英释义

verb

• develop
  1. we worked up an as of an appetite
  Synonym:get up
• come up with
  1. His colleagues worked out his interesting idea
  2. We worked up an ad for our client
  Synonym:work out
• form or accumulate steadily
  1. Resistance to the manager's plan built up quickly
  2. Pressure is building up at the Indian-Pakistani border
  Synonym:build upbuildprogress
• bolster or strengthen
  1. We worked up courage
  2. build up confidence
  3. ramp up security in the airports
  Synonym:build upbuildramp up

双语例句

• Break your work up into chunks.
  把你的工作分为几小块。
• You can really work up a sweat doing housework
  做家务真的会让人大汗淋漓。
• We're going to have to work up a list of obvious possible targets.
  我们得列一张最可能受到打击的目标清单。
• Well, heres another reason to work up a sweat: Exercise tightens the skin on your entire body.
  还有个足够让你运动到大汗淋漓的原因：运动能拉紧整个身体的皮肤。
• Malcolm worked up the nerve to ask Grandma Rose for some help.
  马尔科姆鼓起勇气请罗丝奶奶帮点忙。
• This is more work up front, but it means that Capistrano can later manage the server quite easily.
  这需要事先做更多的操作，但是它意味着Capistrano之后可以更快速简单地管理这个服务器。
• I can't work up any enthusiasm for his decision.
  我不怎么喜欢他的决定。
• Work up to progress gradually to gradual improvement or growth or development.
  逐步发展到，渐渐达到逐步发展、提高、前进。
• Despite all his efforts, he could not work up any enthusiasm for the scheme.
  尽管他做了很大的努力，他仍然未能激起支持这一计划的热情。
• I frown at the page and try to work up my nerve, annoyed with my mother and National Geographic for reminding me how lucky I am.
  对着这页纸皱着眉头，我努力克服自己的紧张心理，同时非常恼火妈妈和《国家地理》，他们总是提醒我我有多幸运。