shut /ʃʌt/► SEE ALLput up or shut upshut sb’s mouthshut your mouth/trap/face/gob!shut up shopshut/close the door on sthshut/close your ears to sb/sthshut/close your eyes to sth(be able to do sth) with your eyes shut/closedshut/lock/close the stable door after the horse has bolted ●ˌput up or ˈshut up (especially BrE) used to tell sb to stop just talking about sth and actually do it, show it, etc.要么拿出实际行动来，要么就闭嘴；动点儿真格的，别光耍嘴皮子◆Come on, Scott. Put up or shut up. Let’s see how fearless you really are. 得了吧，斯科特。别再贫嘴了，拿出点实际行动来，让我们看看你到底有多么勇敢。●shut sb’s ˈmouthstop sb from saying sth, especially from revealing a secret封上某人的嘴巴（尤指不让其说出秘密）◆His employers tried to shut his mouth by offering him money, but he told the story to the newspapers anyway. 他的雇主们想用钱封他的嘴，可是他还是向报界讲了这件事。●shut your ˈmouth/ˈtrap/ˈface/ˈgob! ( keep your ˈmouth/ˈtrap shut) (slang) a rude way of telling sb to be quiet or stop talking（用于粗暴地制止某人讲话）住口，闭嘴◆‘Shut your face’, Roger said, ‘or I’ll kick you out.’ “闭嘴，”罗杰说，“不然我就把你踢出去。”◆Why can’t you learn to keep your big mouth shut? 你为什么不能闭上你那张大嘴！NOTETrap and gob are slang words for ‘mouth’. * trap 与 gob 都是俚语，意为“嘴巴”。●shut up ˈshop (BrE, informal) close a business permanently or stop working for the day停业；关门；打烊◆The family ran a small grocer’s for years, but when the old man died they shut up shop. 这家人开小杂货店好多年了，可是老人死后，他们就把店给关了。◆It’s 6 o’clock — time to shut up shop and go home. 6 点了，该打烊回家了。●shut/close the ˈdoor on sthmake it unlikely that sth will happen; refuse to consider an idea, a plan, etc.拒…于门外；把…的门堵死；对（想法、计划等）不加考虑◆I think this company should remain open to ideas and not shut the door on change.我认为这家公司应该对某些想法持开明态度，而不应关上改革的大门。◆She was careful not to close the door on the possibility of further talks.她十分注意留下进一步商谈的余地。●shut/close your ˈears to sb/sthrefuse to listen to sb/sth; ignore sb/sth拒绝听；对…充耳不闻；忽视◆The government has shut its ears to our protests.政府对我们的抗议不加理睬。●shut/close your ˈeyes to sthpretend that you have not noticed sth so that you do not have to deal with it闭眼不看；对…视而不见；装作不知◆My son has his faults — and I’ve never closed my eyes to them — but dishonesty isn’t one of them.我儿子是有缺点 － 我也从来没有假装看不见 － 但他绝不会不诚实。◆Politicians seemed to be shutting their eyes to corruption in the police force.政客们似乎对警察队伍中的腐败现象视而不见。●(be able to do sth) with your ˈeyes shut/closed(be able to do sth) very easily, especially because you have done it many times before（尤指由于熟悉）闭着眼睛也可以（做某事）；毫不费力；轻车熟路◆She’s driven up to Scotland so often that she can do it with her eyes shut.她已经开车去过苏格兰不知多少次，所以现在就是闭着眼睛也能开到。●shut/lock/close the stable door after the horse has ˈbolted (BrE) (NAmEshut, etc. the barn door after the horse has eˈscaped) take action to prevent sth bad from happening after it has already happened马跑了才去关厩门；贼走关门◆Last week all their silver was stolen; this week they’re putting in a burglar alarm! That’s really shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.上星期他们的银器全被偷走了，这星期他们才安装防盗报警器！这可真是马跑了才去关厩门。