| 词组 | come up |
| 释义 | come up 1. come up to move towards someone or something until you are near them or next to them: ▪ She came up and put her arms around him. + to/behind/beside sb ▪ A lot of people came up to me and started asking questions. ▪ I looked in the mirror and saw a police car coming up behind us. ■ SIMILAR TO: approach 2. come up to travel to or visit a place that is further north than where you are now, or that is in a city: ▪ I thought I might come up to London for the weekend and see a show. ▪ You must come up and visit us some time. 3. come up if an opportunity comes up, for example for a job, it becomes available: ▪ Let me know if you hear of any suitable jobs coming up. ▪ An opportunity came up to work in Ethiopia for a year, so I went. ▪ If you keep on trying, I'm sure something will come up. ■ SIMILAR TO: arise formal 4. come up if a subject, name etc comes up in a conversation or meeting, it is mentioned or discussed: ▪ We'd been going out together for two years before the subject of marriage came up. ▪ The school needs some new governors, and your name kept coming up. ■ SIMILAR TO: be mentioned, arise formal 5. come up if a problem or difficulty comes up, it suddenly appears and you have to try and deal with it: ▪ It's been one of those days when problems keep coming up all the time. something's come up ▪ I'm afraid I'm going to be home late - something's come up at work. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑crop up, arise formal 6. be coming up if a particular event or occasion is coming up, it is going to happen soon at a definite time in the future: ▪ Your birthday's coming up next month, isn't it? ▪ The Annual Folk Festival is coming up on Saturday May 3rd. ▪ Coming up in a few minutes on Central News: plans to make the centre of Oxford into a traffic-free zone. 7. come up if a legal case comes up, it is dealt with in a court of law: ▪ Kate's divorce is coming up before the courts next week. ▪ When the Louise Woodward case came up, the newspapers were full of it. 8. come up if information comes up on a computer screen, it appears there: ▪ Click on `Search', and a list of your options comes up. + on ▪ It was only half an hour until our plane left, and the number of our boarding gate still hadn't come up on the screen. ■ SIMILAR TO: to appear 9. come up to reach a particular point or level: ▪ When the river flooded, how far did it come up? + to ▪ Ed's quite tall now - he comes up to my shoulders! ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑reach 10. come up if the sun or moon comes up, it moves up into the sky where you can see it: ▪ We got up early to watch the sun come up behind the mountains. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑rise ■ OPPOSITE: go down 11. come up if a plant or seed comes up, it begins to appear above the ground: ▪ If you plant the seeds now they should come up in about ten days' time. 12. come up if a wind or storm comes up, it starts and gradually gets stronger or worse: ▪ It was hard work walking, with a strong wind coming up. ▪ We were a mile out to sea when the storm came up. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑blow up 13. come up if a question or a subject comes up in an examination, it is one of the questions or subjects in the examination: ▪ Did any questions on geographical locations come up in the exam? 14. come up to gradually become more successful by improving your position in your job or in society: ▪ Douglas had spent twenty years coming up through the company to where he was now. come up in the world ▪ Jo smiled as she parked her brand new Mercedes outside her house - she was coming up in the world at last. up-and-coming adj always before noun likely to be very successful in the future: ▪ up-and-coming young artists 15. come up BrE if the lights come up in a theatre or cinema, they are turned on at the end of the play or film: ▪ The show finally ended and the lights came up. 16. come up if a number comes up in a competition, you win something if you have a ticket with that number on it: ▪ You'll win about sixty dollars if three of your numbers come up. 17. come up BrE if something comes up in a particular way, that is how it looks after you have done something to it: ▪ I've washed all the curtains and they've come up like new. ▪ If you let your hair dry in the sun, it should help it come up even blonder. 18. come up if food comes up, it rises from your stomach after you have eaten it, especially because you are sick: ▪ Ben had eaten too many hamburgers, so it wasn't surprising when the whole lot came up again. 19. coming (right) up! spoken used to tell someone that the drinks or food they have just ordered will be ready very soon: ▪ "Two Martinis, please." "Coming up, sir!" 20. come up BrE old-fashioned to begin studying at a university: ▪ I came up in the autumn of 1953, to study medicine. |
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