| 词组 | bring up |
| 释义 | bring up 1. bring up sb • bring sb up to look after and educate a child until he or she is grown up: ▪ After Ben's mother died when he was three, he was brought up by his grandmother. ▪ Where will they find the money to bring up six children. be brought up to do sth (=be taught by your parents to behave in a particular way) ▪ In my day children were brought up to respect the law. bring sb up (as) a Catholic/Muslim etc ▪ When they adopted Lucy, it was agreed that she should be brought up as a Catholic. ■ SIMILAR TO: raise upbringing n singular the way that parents treat their children and the things they teach them while they are growing up: ▪ Mike had a very strict upbringing. well-brought up adj a child who is well brought up has been taught to be polite and to behave well: ▪ a well-brought up little girl 2. bring up sth • bring sth up to mention a subject or start to talk about it during a conversation or discussion: ▪ Why did you have to bring up the subject of money? ▪ I shall bring this question up at the next meeting. ■ SIMILAR TO: raise 3. bring up sth • bring sth up BrE to vomit something. If you vomit, food comes up from your stomach and out through your mouth because you are ill or drunk: ▪ She rushed to the toilet and started bringing up her breakfast. ■ SIMILAR TO: vomit formal, ↑throw up, ↑spew up BrE informal 4. bring sb up usually passive to charge someone with a crime and make them appear before a court of law +before ▪ Ben was brought up before the magistrates and accused of being drunk and disorderly. ▪ The two men were brought up before the courts on charges of receiving stolen goods. |
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