| 词组 | call up |
| 释义 | call up 1. call sb up • call up sb • call up especially AmE to phone someone: ▪ Call me up as soon as you get the results. ▪ If you have computer problems, call up the technician at the helpdesk. ▪ Someone called up to say that they had seen a cat just like ours in their front garden. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑call, ↑phone up, ↑ring up BrE 2. be called up to be officially ordered to join the army, navy, or airforce by the government: ▪ When he was 21, Stan was called up for National Service. get called up ▪ During the war, most men between 19 and 38 got called up. ■ SIMILAR TO: be drafted AmE call-up n C,U BrE when people are officially ordered to join the army, navy or airforce: ▪ Because of his illness, Kaye managed to avoid the military call-up. call-up n C when someone is officially asked to take part in something, especially to play for a team in an important game: ▪ Pears has played well this season and thoroughly deserves his call-up. 3. call up sb • call sb up to officially ask someone to take part in something, especially to play for a team in an important game: ▪ Gascoigne has been called up to play for England. ▪ Manager Jack Charlton has called him up because of doubts about the fitness of the other players. 4. call up sth • call sth up especially BrE if you call up information on a computer, you ask the computer to find it and show it on the screen: ▪ The system will allow you to call up information about the latest share prices. ▪ Rex called up the menu and clicked on "New Message". 5. call up sth • call sth up if something calls up an idea or memory of something else, it makes you think of it: ▪ The music calls up memories of Paris in the early 50s. ▪ Each Chinese character calls up a mental image of the thing that it represents. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑conjure up, evoke formal |
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